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[David Planella <david.planella@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi coordinators,

Just a heads up that I've packaged up the translator tools scripts I
started writing quite a while ago. They are now built automatically on a
daily PPA.

They are mainly a collection of both user and admin tools to make the
life of translators and translations coordinators easier. Here's a sample:

What can you do with them?
--------------------------

dpm@avenc $ dpkg -L ubuntu-l10n-tools | grep /usr/bin/
/usr/bin/translations-search
/usr/bin/translations-get-uploads
/usr/bin/ul10n-lp-l10n-upload
/usr/bin/translations-get-review-queue
/usr/bin/ul10n-lp-get-templates
/usr/bin/ul10n-lp-get-team-info
/usr/bin/translations-set-pot-priority

You can execute any of these commands with the '--help' option and they
should explain more in detail what they do. Some highlights:

Translations-search is based on the idea of the old 'search' script in
the old ubuntu-translator-tools package, but it's written in Python,
uses the fantastic polib and it's a lot faster and easier to use:

Search
======

$ translations-search hola
# Will search the string 'hola' in your system's locale translations

$ translations-search "hola\b"
# Same as above, with regexp

$ translations-search --mode both "hello"
# Will search both in the original strings (msgid) and translations (msgstr)

Set translation priorities in Launchpad
=======================================

Translations-set-pot-priority allows individual or mass-setting of
priorities of templates in Launchpad:

$ translations-set-pot-priority -p 1900 -s evolution -p evolution
# Will set the given priority for the specified source package/template
combination

$ translations-set-pot-priority -c oneiric, precise -f priorities.csv
# Will set the priorities for the source package/template combinations
in the given CSV file, for both Oneiric and Precise

NOTE: if you try it and you are mass-setting priorities, make sure to
use the --use-staging option the first time round, check that the
priorities are the ones you were expecting on the staging server, and
then run the tool against the the production instance of Launchpad.

Fetch imports queue listings
============================

Translations-get-review-queue returns all templates needing review from
a given distro's import queue, saving much time in navigating through
import queue pages in the browser. It can help also seeing which uploads
are duplicate entries.

$ translations-get-review-queue
# Will give you all Needs Review template entries in the currently
active distro

Other
=====

Check out the --help. The other tools need some more testing and are not
as mature as the ones above at this point.

Where are they?
---------------

The code lives on:
https://code.launchpad.net/~dpm/ubuntu-l10n-tools/trunk

The PPA lives on:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-translations-coordinators/+archive/ppa/

So if you want to try them, you can simply do:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-translations-coordinators/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-l10n-tools

Any feedback, suggestions for new tools and improvements welcome :)

Enjoy!

Cheers,
David.

-- 
David Planella
Ubuntu Translations Coordinator
www.ubuntu.com / www.davidplanella.wordpress.com
www.identi.ca/dplanella / www.twitter.com/dplanella

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