[Localization] Start translating from a random message in Pootle

[Simos Xenitellis]

On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 11:35 -0500, Pierre Métras wrote:
> On Thursday 07 February 2008 11:25, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> > I don't think this can be done - but I need to confirm with the
> > upstream developers.
> > Thanks,
> > Sayamindu
> 
> Hi Sayamindu,
> 
> If you can ask them to add a feature in Pootle to start translating from a 
> random message, or from a specified message number, it would be great too!
> The problem I face is with eToys which has a *big* message file. Pootle offers 
> the options to start translating from the first message (or from the last). 
> The first (resp. last) bunch of messages have already been translated and 
> it's almost impossible to reach an untranslated slice of messages: you have 
> to paginate too many times, displaying N messages at a time.
> There's a feature to select the untranslated messages, but the web server 
> times out before the request completes.
> So at the present time, that's almost impossible to continue translating eToys 
> with Pootle Web interface.

Pierre,

There is a workaround on this; when you click next, the URL changes to
something like
https://dev.laptop.org/translate/el/etoys/etoys.po?translate=1&view=1&pofilename=etoys.po&item=10

Then, if you change the "10" to 500, then you jump to message 500.
Of course, it would be better to have some entry form to do this but I
believe it is ok for now.

Simos