Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Pootle engagement with Mozilla

On 04/05/2012 15:36, Olav Dahlum wrote:
> 2012/5/4 Sveinn í Felli<sveinki@nett.is>
>
> > Þann fim  3.maí 2012 18:37, skrifaði Коростіль Данило:
> > > On 05/03/2012 09:16 PM, Andras Timar wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Please read this blog post:
> > http://translate.org.za/blogs/dwayne/en/content/better-faster-more-lovely-pootle-thanks-mozilla
> > > > Let's discuss, if we, the LibreOffice l10n community have
> > > > feature or
> > > > bugfix requests. If they fit within Mozilla's scope then
> > > > with our help
> > > > they may be implemented.
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Andras
> > BTW;
> >
> > Does anyone know about the status of the serious complaint
> > towards Transifex (and Pootle?) for not keeping the Gettext
> > headers intact (even replacing them)?
> >
> > This makes it impossible to keep track of (former)
> > translators. Some would even say it's a plain violation of
> > most licenses.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Sveinn í Felli
> >
> > Examples:
> > <https://github.com/transifex/transifex/issues/16>
> > <http://bugs.locamotion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37>
> > and
> > <http://bugs.locamotion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=893>
> It still strips the headers to my knowledge. Yes, it's clearly in violation
> with the code of conduct for translation work, so fixing this should be a
> top priority for their respective developers (some subtle threats to phase
> out their solutions in projects might work, as this problem was painfully
> obvious back in 2010 as well).
We don't strip anything in fact we've always tried really hard to update 
the header and minimise diffs that header updates could cause.

We do in fact try to update the real comment header, as opposed to the 
PO header, with translator information so that you have some track 
record of when and who translated.  Since the PO header is to be quite 
honest useless as a track record for historic rights or contributor 
information.

Having said that there are many ways to interact with Pootle.  Translate 
online, upload PO files, overwrite, merge.  We could easily be getting 
this wrong in the instance or workflow that you follow.  So the way to 
help us to be a little more specific about what doesn't happen and what 
you expect to happen.  Showing us the PO files before, after and how 
you'd expect it to happen are a great help and save us a load of time 
trying to guess.

--
Dwayne Bailey
+27 12 460 1095


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