[Fwd: Options (was: Re: Rosetta for Kubuntu Dapper and KDE)]

[Thomas Diehl]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Options (was: Re: Rosetta for Kubuntu Dapper and KDE)
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 18:12:52 +0700
From: Javier SOLA <lists at khmeros.info>
Reply-To: KDE i18n-doc <kde-i18n-doc at kde.org>
To: kde-i18n-doc at kde.org

Kevin Donnelly wrote:

> On Monday 29 May 2006 12:37, Clytie Siddall wrote:
> 
> 
>> Debian is currently setting this up with Pootle [1] (from
>> the Wordforge [2] project). We've looked into this situation
>> very carefully. It will be interesting to see how it turns
>> out, with all the plans to integrate the Wordforge tools
>> into the Debian infrastructure.
>> 
>> 
> This is an interesting development.  If they can get the
> liaison with KDE-svn sorted out, then this would appear to be
> a large step in the right direction.
> 
> 
Hi

Part of our goals in WordForge is to ensure this liaisson with
KDE. We are already working on the generic SVN interface. We 
would have to look at things that are specific to KDE.

Are KDE PO files different or more specific than standard PO files?

Internally Pootle will work with XLIFF files (new XML 
localisation standard file format), but it will interact with PO 
files in the project svn, and it will allow the translator to 
download either XLIFF files or PO files (which will be created 
under demand). We would need to make sure that all this is 
transparent to KDE.

Pootle will manage rights and localisation process. It will be
possible to give to team leaders, reviewers and translators 
diferent rights, depending on how the localisation team organises 
itself, and then the teams will be able to follow different 
localisation workflows, from simple translation->commit to very 
comlicated process that require several reviews. XLIFF files 
allow including information about the state of the process in the 
files, and Pootle will manage this information to facilitate the 
workflow, ensuring that the defined steps are taken before a file 
is committed.

As SVN is concerned, Pootle will always merge the information it
has to the file in SVN, it will never replace it, as the file in 
SVN might have been updated since the file that is being sent 
back from Pootle was taken from this same SVN. The merged file 
will be committed and fed back into Pootle (with new messages if 
there are any).

Process will take place when files are uploaded to Pootle by
translators, the translation is merged into the file that is
currently in Pootle.

Our roadmap is in www.wordforge.org. As you will see, we have
taken the KDE website as our example on how to present the state 
of translation of each file.

Have a nice day !

Javier