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[Martin Lukeš <martin.meridius@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just reminding this issue since I linked it (as my previous bug [1]
describing the same thing) to a blueprint [2] registered on *2005-11-03*.

As Данило Шеган wrote: "we still haven't had the time to do it". I feel a
bit sad about this you know. It's over four years and nothing has happened.
I know that Launchpad is developed by volunteers as UMP is. But four years
for string comparing? I wonder how much medium priority this issue is... :((

In fact one guy brought me on this thought today when he was arguing about
how Rosetta dropping altered strings. And how bad is it for our development
(mainly translation).

He also wrote something like if we were not using Rosetta, we could already
continuously translate. Thereby there will be no time pressure to
translators. Also there will be a better chance to get more translators who
will translate even a few strings/sentences/paragraphs at the time. Those
strings would be then just kept updated when original string 'd change.

I could do nothing but agree.

Unfortunately I don't know about any different program for managing
translations which can also handle these similar strings.
And even I *really* hope that we can translate our manual to release date,
here's a question:

Is Rosetta the right tool for our project regarding to translations?



[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/rosetta/+bug/515536
[2] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/rosetta/+spec/rosetta-fuzzy-merge

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Regards
Martin Lukeš
P.S.: Please keep the communication history


On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Данило Шеган <danilo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ** Changed in: rosetta
>       Status: Incomplete => Invalid
>
> --
> Translations keep disappearing
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/535371
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> Status in Launchpad Translations: Invalid
> Status in Ubuntu Manual: Invalid
> Status in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> I maintain the Ubuntu Manual translations (see lp:ubuntu-manual). I am
> getting fairly regular feedback from the translators of the project that
> some of the translations that they do disappear whenever the .pot file is
> updated. I haven't been able to reliably reproduce this, and I don't really
> want to start doing something deliberately destructive.
>
> The workflow for translations is this: generate .pot file in branch's po/
> directory using po4a (http://po4a.alioth.debian.org), push to LP. LP then
> imports the .pot file and this is translated. The translations are exported
> to lp:~jshholland/ubuntu-manual/manual-trans then merged back into the main
> lp:ubuntu-manual branch. Over this time, the content of the manual has
> changed, so I re-run po4a to regenerate the .pot file. The .po files are
> also set up to import into Rosetta. Lather, rinse, repeat.
>
> If you have suggestions, please point them out :).
>
>
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