Why not use Transifex? Many projects has used Transifex platform to provide localization work, suc h as Fedora, Xfce, MeeGo, LXDE... It is better for translators to view, download and keep track of the po files. It also provides a easy-to-use online editor for independent translators.
http://trac.transifex.org/ On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Andre Schnabel <andre.schna...@gmx.net>wrot e: > Hi Petr, > > (forwarding for info to l...@libo) > > thanks for the update - all correct, but one addition: > > We might be able to provide a pootle server for 3.3 as well. But all > people who are fine with directly pulling po-files and sending these > to the mailing list, should go on as suggested. > > André > > > > Von: Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.cz> > > An: libreoff...@lists.freedesktop.org > > > first, we are really happy to hear that so many people would want to > > help with translating LibreOffice. > > > > We will use a temporary process for 3.3 and something better for the > > next releases. > > > > > > Proposed process for LibreOffice-3.3: > > > > + we are going to regularly merge ooo330-mX, so we will get > > translation for most strings from OOo-3.3 sources > > > > > > + the libreoffice-specific strings are listed in > > libreoffice/build/po/lo-build.pot, see > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/build/tree/po/lo-build.pot > > > > Some of the strings are already translated in the > > libreoffice/build/po/lo-build-<lang>.po files, see > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/build/tree/po > > > > Please, help us to have 100% translated strings in the > > lo-<lang>.po files > > > > You might send your changes to this mailing list and someone > > with a commit access will push them to the git. > > > > Of course, you might also ask for commit access. Though, I > > am not sure if it is worth for this temporary process. > > > > Note that you might ignore libreoffice/build/po/<lang>.po > > files. They are used for desktop integration by some Linux > > distributions. They are not important for LibreOffice. > > They will most likely get removed soon. > > > > > > + if you want to fix a string that is not in lo-build.pot, > > you might create a reduced .sdf file and we will put it > > as a hotfix into libreoffice/build/src/sdf > > > > It is a bit inconvenient but it is only for LO-3.3 release. > > > > Let us know if you have troubles to create the sdf file. We > > will try to help you with it. Personally, I would try to base > > it on the existing .sdf file in the l10n source module, see > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/l10n/tree/l10n/source > > > > > > Plans for the future: > > > > + we would like to setup a pootle server and allow to translate > > all LibreOffice strings at the same place a convenient way > > + the strings will be extracted from the pootle server and > > used for the regular test builds > > > > > > Schedule for LibreOffice-3.3: > > > > + libreoffice/build/po/lo-build.pot and lo-build-<lanf>.po > > have been just updated, so they follow the current state > > => please, start with contributing > > > > + string freeze will be at the end of October; I expect only > > very few new strings; nobody should add any huge feature at > > this stage > > > > + final release date is a bit unclear; My estimation is Decembe r > > but I am not the one who would decide ;-) > > > > > > Any hints how to improve the processes are welcome. > > > > André, please fix me if any information above is wrong or if you s uggest > > any improvement. You are much bigger expert here. I just try to solve > > the technical problems... :-) > > > > > > Best Regards, > > Petr > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LibreOffice mailing list > > libreoff...@lists.freedesktop.org > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice > > -- > GRATIS! Movie-FLAT mit über 300 Videos. > Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome > -- > To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to l10n+unsubscr...@libreoffice.org< l10n%2bunsubscr...@libreoffice.org> > List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/l10n/ > All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot b e > deleted. > > -- Sincerely, by Cheng-Chia Tseng -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to l10n+unsubscr...@libreoffice.org List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/l10n/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted.
