Web Translation tool

[Łukasz Wojniłowicz]

Hi,

do you know that you can svn checkout
svn+ssh://svn@svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/l10n-kf6/templates for the
right side of your picture and have it updated automatically afterwards?
Templates are common for all languages.

Cheers,
Łukasz

On Mon, 1 Apr 2024 14:18:50 +0300
Yaron Shahrabani <sh.yaron at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey,
> This is the diagram:
> 
>         Local copy                        Template copy
>       ┌──────────────────────┐         ┌─────────────────────────────┐
>       │  alpaka.po           │         │  alpaka.pot                 │
>       │                      │         │                             │
>       │  alpaka._desktop_.po │         │  alpaka._desktop_.pot       │
>       │                      │         │                             │
>       │                      │         │  org.kde.alpaka.metainfo.pot│
> 
>       └──────────────────────┘         └─────────────────────────────┘
> 
> Let's assume that I translated the part on the left and these files
> are 100% complete, when I'm updating my local copy against the SVN
> I'm not getting any new updates unless scripty merged them with their
> corresponding POT files.
> For existing files, it works great, but if I have new files (in the
> templates) I can't fetch them automatically unless I'm either
> fetching them manually from the templates or looking at the UI and
> finding that there are missing strings in an app I've already fully
> translated.
> 
> I hope it makes sense.
> Yaron Shahrabani
> 
> <DevOps - Hebrew translator>
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 10:46 AM Łukasz Wojniłowicz <
> lukasz.wojnilowicz at gmail.com> wrote:  
> 
> > Hi, and no problem.
> >
> > On Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:22:23 +0300
> > Yaron Shahrabani <sh.yaron at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  
> > > Hi, and thank you for your patience and for going deeper into this
> > > with me. This is what I'm experiencing (Hypothetically because I
> > > can't remember where it was precisely):
> > > Several months ago, I downloaded a package with 3 POT files.
> > > Several months later, a fourth file appeared (usually the _json
> > > one).  
> >
> > A package like a tarball?
> >  
> > > My local repo appears complete, and there's no way for me to know
> > > that there's a new POT file just by syncing my copy. I either
> > > need to look at the web UI or make a comparison with the
> > > templates.  
> >
> > Have you already tried using projects in Lokalize and "svn
> > update" command on templates (aka POT files)?
> >  
> > > I can indeed write a script to solve that but given the time I can
> > > spend, I'd instead look at the web UI and solve this manually.
> > > Localization platforms inform you when a new module/file is
> > > added, so you don't need to check manually in addition to all the
> > > other operations that don't require any manual involvement.  
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Łukasz
> >