Re: [Gretl-devel] Gretl project on the launchpad

Hello Gretl developers. Henrique recently wrote me to know how are things going with translating of gretl help on the launchpad. How about resurrecting this process? Currently the situation is the following: 1. In the Launchpad there are partial translations (33% for Brazilian Portuguese and 13% for Russian) for old versions of gretl_commands.xml and genr_funcs.xml. https://translations.launchpad.net/gretl/trunk 2. I have generated the new .pot file for these two xmls and uploaded it to Launchpad. https://translations.launchpad.net/gretl/trunk/+imports I suppose it will be imported by some backend Launchpad job and will update the .po file for the translations. 3. After that we will be able to download the po files for translation and produce files: gretl_commands_pt_BR.xml gretl_commands_ru.xml genr_func_pt_BR.xml genr_func_ru.xml with partial translations that will be up-to-date with current gretl_commands.xml genr_func.xml So how about placing po4a.cfg to the cvs? All current files are on https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qh3vwh8qmijjvxb/G72hFXmeEG (with no actual translations yet). So if someone will want to translate gretl into new language he will (e.g. for AZ language): 1. Modify po4a.cfg adding "az:gretl_help-az.po" strings by example of already existing strings for ru, pt_BR and others. 2. Generate new gretl_help.pot file from the up-to-date xmls: $po4a -k 0 po4a.cfg 3. Ask someone to upload new .pot to Launchpad (currently only me - I will be happy to add others to maintainers of the project at launchpad) 4. Make partial translation. 5. Download gretl-help-az.po file from launchpad. 6. Generate gretl_commands_az.xml genr_func_az.xml fiels and send them to gretl-devel. If we will want to update existing translation with the help of Launchpad (most likely while the translation is less then 100% ready but maybe used and after that if it will not be easier to update xmls by hand) the process is similar: 1. While gretl_commands.xml and genr_func.xml files are updated - all the gretl_commands_LANG.xml and genr_func_LANG.xml files are updated too with english phrases (As far as I know it is currently so?) 2. Generate the new .pot file fr updated xmls 3. Recieve updated .po files from Launchpad. 4. Update gretl_commands_LANG.xml and genr_func_LANG.xml with translations. Are there any pitfalls that I don't see currently or any concerns? Thanks, Ivan Sopov. 2009/12/3 Henrique <henrique.coelho(a)gmail.com&gt;