On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:44:23AM -0300, Domingo Becker wrote:
2008/11/5 Paul W. Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:08:55AM +1000, Noriko Mizumoto wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> It seems that POT and PO files have now been updated.
>> This was supposed to happen on 6-Nov, and many of us have not committed
>> our files yet. We now have to stop working.
>>
http://git.fedoraproject.org/git/?p=docs/release-notes.git;a=summary
>>
>> One funny thing to me, the total number of strings decreased to 1024
>> strings...
>>
>> Could someone please let us know what is happening?
>
> Noriko,
>
> I believe I'm the person who updated the POT, but I thought I was
> giving translators early content to make sure they were able to work
> as long as possible on the correct content.
>
> Are you saying that updating the POT files destroys your previous
> work? I thought that the update would simply mark new strings that
> have changed a little bit as fuzzy. Does this really require that
> work stop? Don't translators have a way of getting the updates
> without destroying their existing work?
>
It seems it does not destroy translations.
I started translations with an es.po file a week ago, I commited
translations some hours ago, against the new es.po file with the new
strings and it seems it does not destroy my work.
t.fp.o [1] shows for Spanish 341/476/207 (1024 strings) while my
poEdit shows 353/477/200 (1030 strings). Of course, I have to download
the new .po file to continue working.
I wonder what will happen when we do the *next* change of the POT and
PO. I expect that the gettext utils would mark some things fuzzy if
there is a slight change between your work and the new updates. I
would certainly hope that no work would be completely lost or futile!
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