Re: [PATCH 1/3] po/README: document PO helper

> Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> 于2021年3月11日周四 下午8:56写道：
>>>
>>> Document about PO helper script (po-helper.sh). It covers about
>>> installing the script and short usage examples.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>   po/README | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>   1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/po/README b/po/README
>>> index efd5baaf1d..9beffc2954 100644
>>> --- a/po/README
>>> +++ b/po/README
>>> @@ -286,3 +286,25 @@ Testing marked strings
>>>
>>>   Git's tests are run under LANG=C LC_ALL=C. So the tests do not need be
>>>   changed to account for translations as they're added.
>>> +
>>> +
>>> +PO Helper
>>> +---------
>>> +
>>> +To make maintaining XX.po file easier, the l10n coordinator created
>>> +po-helper.sh script. It is wrapper to gettext suite, specifically
>>
>> It's better to rename the script to other name without the suffix
>> ".sh", so we can reimplement it in other programming language. Maybe
>> we can rename it to `git-po-helper`, and host this helper in a
>> separate project on GitHub.
> 
> It might be a good move in the longer term, but if the po-helper.sh
> is working well enough to fill the need of i18n/l10n team right now,
> I think documenting the status quo would be a good way to help the
> contributors immediately.
> 
> And when we reimplement it (if that is desirable---I have no opinion
> myself), we certainly would want to update this part of the doc to
> use the name of the rewritten tool.
> 
> In any case, I expect that you to be the main reviewer on this topic
> and you will feed me the final commits, just like any other change
> in the po/* area via a pull request.  In other words, I may have
> input to the discussion on list, but I won't be applying the result
> myself---I'll be pulling from git://github.com/git-l10n/git-po.git
> repository instead.
> 
> Thanks.
>