Hi Pedro,

The first step would be to update the strings on Pootle with the current en-US.SDF.

The strings on Pootle are outdated. New ones were added, some were removed, some changed.

Regards,

   Matthias

Am 29.07.24 um 12:26 schrieb Pedro Lino:
Hi Damjan

On 07/28/2024 4:42 PM WEST Damjan Jovanovic <dam...@apache.org> wrote:

On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 3:39 PM Matthias Seidel <matthias.sei...@hamburg.de>
We need to find volunteers who want to work on it.
And we need to have the will to release AOO 4.2.0.


If it's such a problem, I'll volunteer.
What exactly needs to be done?
Thank you for stepping in!

A short version of the problem (someone please correct me if there are 
inaccuracies) and two possible paths:

1) Translators use the Pootle platform (which has been discontinued but still 
works) to translate the text strings both for the UI and Help of the 4.2 branch
https://translate.apache.org/projects/

2) Translations (in PO format) are converted through some manual process in SDF 
files (I volunteered to learn from Mechtilde but I needed additional karma for 
some of the steps and we could never find who would give it to me)

3) Translations for the several languages are included in our code tree as SDF 
files

What is needed:

Minimum: as a first step that the current Pootle translations are converted to 
SDF and manually merged to the source tree. If this works, we can ask 
volunteers to finish the translations and then hopefully automate the PO to SDF 
to source process so that we can have a complete 4.2 release.

Ideal: a new platform (user friendly and stable/supported) that works with 
"modern" PO files and an automated process to periodically merge those updated 
translations into the source (eliminating the conversion to SDF format). This obviously 
would require the PO strings to be mapped to the interface and included in the Help files.
This solution is more work intensive but would solve the problem into the 
future.

I would suggest that you (Damjan) would help with Minimum and leave the Ideal 
to  some other volunteer who wants to jump in.

Best,
Pedro

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