Phabricator review for Pootle 2.7.2 available

[René Ladan]

2016-03-24 1:59 GMT+01:00 Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com>:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2016, René Ladan wrote:
>>
>> 2016-03-23 17:07 GMT+01:00 Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com>:
>>>
>>>
>>> This is excellent work!  We have Pootle as one of our topics to discuss
>>> at
>>> the doc working group at BSDCan in June.  My remaining questions with it
>>> are
>>> mostly about how it would be integrated with our existing doc structure.
>>> Can we add it as an option but still allow translators to use local PO
>>> editors if they wish?
>>>
>> We could set it up as a new service, e.g., https://pootle.freebsd.org/
>> , so translators can use it if they wish.
>> Pootle has an option to download the current translation into a PO
>> file for offline editing.
>
>
> Well, I was really thinking about how the Pootle PO files would be used in
> the doc build.  But one of the other problems we have is how to let
> translators submit translations without having to have commit rights to the
> doc repo.  If Pootle can accept PO files and merge them with existing
> translations, that would be a good step.  Then we would just have to figure
> out how to integrate the Pootle setup with the doc build.

I think Pootle can merge PO files, based on my experience a drive-by
translation I did about a year ago for the Fdroid project.

René
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