Re: git-gui translation updates needed

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 3, 2010, 01:09 UTC
Message-ID: <7vy6jbunu8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100201151647.GB8916@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

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> git-gui has picked up a few new strings.  Junio and I would like
> to see the new version in git 1.7.0, which means we need to get
> the new messages translated.
>
> If you maintain a translation file for git-gui, please grab the
> latest sources and send a patch for your .po file:
>
>   git://git.spearce.org/git-gui.git master
>
> Thus far I think I have German, Italian and Swedish (thanks Christian
> Stimming, Christian Stimming, Christian Stimming).

I grabbed the current one and took a quick look.

"git grep POT-Creation-Date" reveals:

el.po "POT-Creation-Date: 2008-03-14 07:18+0100\n" zh_cn.po "POT-Creation-Date: 2008-03-14 07:18+0100\n" nb.po "POT-Creation-Date: 2008-11-16 13:56-0800\n" hu.po "POT-Creation-Date: 2008-12-08 08:31-0800\n" ru.po "POT-Creation-Date: 2008-12-08 08:31-0800\n"

git-gui.pot "POT-Creation-Date: 2010-01-26 15:47-0800\n" fr.po "POT-Creation-Date: 2010-01-26 15:47-0800\n" it.po "POT-Creation-Date: 2010-01-26 15:47-0800\n" ja.po "POT-Creation-Date: 2010-01-26 15:47-0800\n" sv.po "POT-Creation-Date: 2010-01-26 15:47-0800\n" de.po "POT-Creation-Date: 2010-01-26 22:22+0100\n"

The build says:

    MSGFMT    po/el.msg 381 translated, 4 fuzzy, 6 untranslated.
    MSGFMT po/zh_cn.msg 366 translated, 7 fuzzy, 17 untranslated.
    MSGFMT    po/nb.msg 474 translated, 39 untranslated.
    MSGFMT    po/hu.msg 514 translated.
    MSGFMT    po/ru.msg 513 translated, 2 untranslated.
    MSGFMT    po/it.msg 519 translated, 1 untranslated.

A few observations:

 - It is curious that de.po is based on a version of .pot that is
   different from the official git-gui.pot, even though it seems to be
   up-to-date (no, I don't read German, but running "msgmerge -U po/de.po
   po/git-gui.pot" doesn't seem to detect anything missing).

   Build log for "de" also says that has 520 messages all translated.

 - I am seeing "1 untranslated", even though it.po is based on the latest
   git-gui.pot.  It translates "buckets" to an empty string; somebody who
   care about Italian may need to double check.

 - Greek and Chinese are way out of date and Nowegian, Hungarian, and
   Russian are more than one year old.

If people who can read/write Greek, Chinese, Nowegian, Hungarian, or Russian and who do use git-gui on regular basis want to step forward to help, it is the time.

Thanks.