[Localization] Start translating from a random message in Pootle

[Yuan Chao]

On Feb 8, 2008 1:19 AM, Simos Xenitellis <simos.lists at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
You can also go to the "Show Editing Functions". There's one link to
"View Untranslated".


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Best regards,
Yuan Chao