Translate of addon with upstream repo existing

while i think making them files easier to find for translators is a good idea, giving the authors the load of checking when an update is available is absolutely unacceptable.

spiff Wrote:while i think making them files easier to find for translators is a good idea, giving the authors the load of checking when an update is available is absolutely unacceptable.

Ok. I understand that. So the simple webspace solution is no good. If i can present a po to xml and xml to po converter can you put together the launchpad translation solution. As i wrote i can undertake the task to create and maintain the POT template files and do other needed stuff.

I cheked and there are some really nice crossplatforms utils editing, creating etc the po and pot files. Eg. http://www.poedit.net/screenshots.php.

Edit: Two relevant emailing about xml and pot conversion:
https://answers.launchpad.net/rosetta/+question/12456
https://answers.launchpad.net/rosetta/+question/98058

i pm'd blittan about it and he's saying he's writing an online translation tool from scratch. why i dont know tho. probably because you have to convert them all the time

if you hand us the conversion tool, we will handle launchpad for sure. note that it's gonna be somewhat tricky i think, since .po has no concept of an id, instead the english string is used as the key.

spiff Wrote:if you hand us the conversion tool, we will handle launchpad for sure. note that it's gonna be somewhat tricky i think, since .po has no concept of an id, instead the english string is used as the key.

That's no problem at all 'cause we can use msgctxt "id_number" format in the po file.
I found this in Blittan's emailing :-)

https://answers.launchpad.net/rosetta/+question/73660

If he is currently writing an online conversion tool i think there is no sense for me to start another one. What i could make is a simple command-line tool that converts addon.xml and strings.xml files to po and reverse. But if Blittan can do an online version, that's even better.

Maybe also an online regexp tool with a proper expression can do the trick, i am not sure.

well this appears to be working:

xml2po -o template.pot template.xml
xml2po -p LANG.po -o LANG.xml template.xml

ventech Wrote:well this appears to be working:
xml2po -o template.pot template.xml
xml2po -p LANG.po -o LANG.xml template.xml

You have tried it with sample files ?

yes

ventech Wrote:yes

Could you please enclose the sample files, for checking ?

template.xml: http://pastebin.com/aYBRg3YN
template.pot: http://pastebin.com/Fx0H8bQp
translation.po: http://pastebin.com/XkdMMixa
translation.xml: http://pastebin.com/cWQKkGAS