Re: [Launchpad-users] Lost in translations

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From: "Peter Clifton" <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <launchpad-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 11:00 PM
Subject: [Launchpad-users] Lost in translations


> Hi,
>
> I'm struggling to try and manage our project (gEDA)'s translations on
> launchpad.
>
> Specifically, we've got more changed translations from our core
> developers, who often commit directly to git, and various changed .pot
> files.
>
> I made a tarball and uploaded as usual, but some uploads have failed
> (with no quoted reason), and I'm not sure the updates which claimed to
> have been approved have even been merged.
>
> If I'm working with an individual language, I can upload a .po file and
> mark it as being "identical" to upstream. Why isn't there a similar
> option for uploading the whole .tar.gz of .pot and .po files?
>
>
> Our library, libgeda has had a major SO_VERSION bump, so the translation
> template is now called libgeda35 (not libgeda32). Something appears to
> be severly broken in the import, as it is quoting:
>
> libgeda/libgeda35.pot in gEDA Series: trunk
>
> Uploaded by Peter Clifton on 2009-01-25 00:49:33 GMT Will be imported
> into Template "geda-gattrib" in gEDA trun
>
>
> So far, I've had nothing but bad experience with Launchpad's translation
> system. I can't feel _more_ detached and out of control as a project
> developer / admin.
>
> The automated translation approval process seems to be broken,
> un-necessarily slow, and very frustrating with its lack of feedback, and
> sensible project admin interface.
>
> Is there a way we could explicitly mark our project as _not_ using
> launchpad for translations any more (if we wanted to)?
>
> Unless we can get this to work sensibly, we're going to have to go back
> to committing translations upstream, directly into our git repository on
> behalf of our translators. It simply isn't fair to those people
> translating for us on Launchpad, to keep pretending that we're using
> launchpad for translations, when it is so awkward for us to manage that
> we're unable to actually merge our own translations properly.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> --
> Peter Clifton
>
> Electrical Engineering Division,
> Engineering Department,
> University of Cambridge,
> 9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
> Cambridge
> CB3 0FA
>
> Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)
>
>
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