Re: [PATCH 1/5] Internationalization of git-gui

> Am Samstag, 21. Juli 2007 23:28 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>
> >  - The i18n coordinator (could be Shawn but anybody else can
> >    volunteer; as things stand, I think Christian and Johannes
> >    are doing this): responsible for running "make
> >    po/git-gui.pot; make update-po" from time to time in order to
> >    keep po/*.po in sync with the vocabulary.
> 
> Actually, please DO NOT RUN update-po except right before a new tarball 
> is being packaged and distributed! It sucks royally if I have updated my 
> de.po translation, only to discover someone has run update-po on the 
> server and I have to figure out how to get out of the de.po conflicts.

> >  - Translators (one for each language): responsible for updating
> >    po/xx.po file;
> >
> >    initially, start by copying po/git-gui.pot to create
> >    po/xx.po;
> >
> >    maintainance of "glossary" part of po/xx.po could also be
> >    made this person's responsibility instead of i18n
> >    coordinator's.
> >
> > This way, the translators do not have to be so familiar with the
> > gettext toolchain nor even have to have gettext installed.
> 
> Translators who are unfamiliar with gettext are a mixed blessing. [...] 
> I wouldn't spent too much effort to enable translation work without 
> gettext tools; instead, I'd rather encourage to optimize the setup for 
> those translators that have the full toolchain available.