Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Re: [libreoffice-projects] Re: Workflow between dev, UX and l10n teams

Hi,

2015.01.29 11:20, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> On 01/28/2015 08:02 PM, Rimas Kudelis wrote:
> > On day X time Y, we close down the affected Pootle project, push its
> > localizations into git, then somebody who's in charge checks them out of
> > git and runs the script. When the script finishes its work, the
> > resulting files are committed back to git, imported back to Pootle and
> > the project is re-opened for translation. Once that is done, an
> > announcement should be sent to the L10n list with huge thanks for
> > everyone's patience and kudos to everybody involved in the process. And
> > we all live happily ever after. :)
> [...]
> > * The scripts might be buggy
> >      - Obviously, each time they should be tested in advance with at
> > least some real data and their result should be validated before
> > committing.
>
> Yeah, its vital that the script will be run in a way that can be tried
> locally and in advance by any script-writing developer (i.e., that the
> script will ultimately be run on the git data, not on some pootle data).

Yes, when I'm talking about scripting stuff, it must be done on raw git
data.

> > On the bright side, I hope the massive changes we are talking about here
> > will be less and less frequent, making this issue less and less
> > relevant. From my understanding, we've already changed three dots with
> > ellipses and straight quotes with curly ones, there shouldn't be much
> > more typography to improve on, is there? :)
>
> Typographic changes should rarely be scriptable across all locales
> anyway, I guess.  (Even the ellipsis change might not have been, given
> there's not only U+2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS but at least also U+0EAF
> LAO ELLIPSIS and U+1801 MONGOLIAN ELLIPSIS.)

Furthermore, that's why I emphasized the need to be able to opt out of
the scriptable change: some locales might need different case-by-case
handling than others. But even your example is still easily scriptable,
you just need three (or maybe four) variations of the same script: one
for most locales, one for Lao, one for Mongolian and one for Japanese
(or perhaps all CJK locales).

Rimas


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