[Localization] msguniq conflict markers committed to act-server .po files
Sayamindu Dasgupta
sayamindu at gmail.com
Sun Mar 9 15:33:33 EDT 2008
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Alexander Dupuy <alex.dupuy at mac.com> wrote:
> I wrote (to C. Scott Ananian):
> >> I noticed in your commit yesterday that a lot of the language .po files
> >> (bg, de, fr, it, and probably others) have msguniq conflict markers in
> >> them, e.g.:
> >>
> >> +# The is the 'laptops.dat' file which is created by the "collection
> >> (usb) key": http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_Developer_Keys
> >> #: oats/request/views.py:72
> >> #, fuzzy
> >> msgid "Collection file"
> >> -msgstr "Zeitpunkt der Aktion"
> >> +msgstr ""
> >> +"#-#-#-#-# django.po (act-server 1.0) #-#-#-#-#\n"
> >> +"Zeitpunkt der Aktion\n"
@alex
> > >> +"#-#-#-#-# django.po (act-server 1.0) #-#-#-#-#\n"
> >> +"Collection Datei"
> >>
> >> These really need to be removed (and resolved, probably in favor of
> >> latest version on Pootle) - otherwise the localization will be pretty
> >> messy looking and incomprehensible.
> >>
>
> C. Scott Ananian replied::
> > Agreed. There were four or so instances like this, which had some
> > existing translations from the django project, but also had some
> > existing Pootle translations. I resolved the ones I could figure out,
> > but I figured the best approach to the others was to upload the messy
> > versions and have the Pootle users figure out which is correct. All
> > such translations are marked fuzzy. It doesn't seem that Sayamindu
> > has installed the latest .POT file for act-server yet, though. (
> > https://activation.laptop.org/static/django.pot )
> >
> > The only translation I expect to work on the running act-server
> > currently is Spanish, so I wasn't terribly concerned by the merge
> > markers (yet)
>
> While this may be a reasonable approach, I wonder if there might be
> complications in the process of merging your versions (with the conflict
> markers) with the existing translations on Pootle (possibly exacerbated
> by other, mostly cosmetic, changes to the msgid strings). But Sayamindu
> can probably address this issue best.
>
> In any case, I'm cc'ing this to the localization list so that
> translators for the various languages are alerted that when Pootle is
> next updated from your act-server repository, there are likely to be
> these conflict markers which will need cleanup.
>
I have updated the POT files and merged it with the translations. Does
that fix the problem ?
The POT file will be update daily automatically from tomorrow onwards.
Thanks,
Sayamindu
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Sayamindu Dasgupta
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