[GNC-dev] Request to move translation to Gnu Translation Project

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 26, 2020, at 7:52 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger <frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Am 26.11.20 um 16:28 schrieb John Ralls:
>> Frank, I'm not sure what you mean about the string-freeze/prerelease process. As we approach a major release we do a series of beta releases and typically impose a string freeze after the one a month before the scheduled major release date. TP gets all of those releases and the (3 or 4 active) TP translators generally have updated translations ready in time for the major release. There's no pre-release or string freeze process for minor releases, TP or otherwise, and AFAICT the only non-TP translator who routinely updates between minor releases is you (TP's Ukrainian and Croatian translators have been very good at keeping up to date, albeit with a one-release lag because of the TP's policy of working only from release tarballs).
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> The betas help for a new major release, but not for the more frequent
> minor releases.
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> From https://translationproject.org/html/maintainers.html
> 2. Using the Translation Project
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> Preferably you make a prerelease a week or so earlier and announce this
> to the TP, so the translators get a chance to update their PO files
> before the actual release of your package, so the release can go out
> fully translated into several languages.
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> Ideally we would declare string freeze 2 weeks before any release and
> send a recent pot file to TP. So translators would have a chance to
> update their po files before the release.

Maybe should discuss this with Benno. I don't think it makes sense to do a full release ahead of the real release. I'd think it would be sufficient to make a pre-release tarball for the TP. They might even be able to work from one of the Github tarballs. IIUC they don't try to build the project so they wouldn't be affected by the versioning stuff. They run their own tools on it and generate their own profile that they merge into their own po-file repository.

Regards,
John Ralls