Release notes in Pootle (Re: Pre-requisite for Tamil Version of AOO 4.0)

[Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>]

RGB wrote:
> Just thinking aloud: Is it possible to put the release notes on pootle?
> Build a third project, "Apache OpenOffice 4.x release notes"? And the
> release announcement?

In theory it is quite possible. I had a look and I put a proof of 
concept, with the 3.4.1 files, in my temporary area.

Original English HTML file, identical to SVN:
http://people.apache.org/~pescetti/tmp/rn2po/rn-341.en.html
(it looks simpler since it doesn't get the site formatting, but it is 
what we have in SVN for English).

Untranslated PO file obtained from it with
html2po rn-341.en.html > rn-341.po
http://people.apache.org/~pescetti/tmp/rn2po/rn-341.po

A partially translated Italian PO file (here I used POEdit, but Pootle 
is fine too):
http://people.apache.org/~pescetti/tmp/rn2po/rn-341.it.po

Recreated HTML file in Italian with
po2html -t rn-341.en.html rn-341.it.po > rn-341.it.html
http://people.apache.org/~pescetti/tmp/rn2po/rn-341.it.html
(if put on the openoffice.org site, it would get the nice formatting 
automatically, with no changes necessary)

Using Pootle would put some burden on the Pootle administrators. On the 
other hand, not using Pootle and asking people to send HTML files is 
error-prone and tedious too (since the HTML files have to be checked in 
anyway). So, so long as we use HTML files, this seems feasible. If we 
don't want to do additional work at all, we can of course ask people to 
host translations on their blogs and merely provide links, but the other 
way looks more "official".

Regards,
   Andrea.

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Re: Release notes in Pootle (Re: Pre-requisite for Tamil Version of AOO 4.0)

[Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>wrote:

> RGB wrote:
>
>> Just thinking aloud: Is it possible to put the release notes on pootle?
>> Build a third project, "Apache OpenOffice 4.x release notes"? And the
>> release announcement?
>>
>
> In theory it is quite possible. I had a look and I put a proof of concept,
> with the 3.4.1 files, in my temporary area.
>
> Original English HTML file, identical to SVN:
> http://people.apache.org/~**pescetti/tmp/rn2po/rn-341.en.**html<http://people.apache.org/~pescetti/tmp/rn2po/rn-341.en.html>
> (it looks simpler since it doesn't get the site formatting, but it is what
> we have in SVN for English).
>
> Untranslated PO file obtained from it with
> html2po rn-341.en.html > rn-341.po
> http://people.apache.org/~**pescetti/tmp/rn2po/rn-341.po<http://people.apache.org/~pescetti/tmp/rn2po/rn-341.po>
>
> A partially translated Italian PO file (here I used POEdit, but Pootle is
> fine too):
> http://people.apache.org/~**pescetti/tmp/rn2po/rn-341.it.**po<http://people.apache.org/~pescetti/tmp/rn2po/rn-341.it.po>
>
> Recreated HTML file in Italian with
> po2html -t rn-341.en.html rn-341.it.po > rn-341.it.html
> http://people.apache.org/~**pescetti/tmp/rn2po/rn-341.it.**html<http://people.apache.org/~pescetti/tmp/rn2po/rn-341.it.html>
> (if put on the openoffice.org site, it would get the nice formatting
> automatically, with no changes necessary)
>
> Using Pootle would put some burden on the Pootle administrators. On the
> other hand, not using Pootle and asking people to send HTML files is
> error-prone and tedious too (since the HTML files have to be checked in
> anyway). So, so long as we use HTML files, this seems feasible. If we don't
> want to do additional work at all, we can of course ask people to host
> translations on their blogs and merely provide links, but the other way
> looks more "official".
>
> Regards,
>   Andrea.
>

In my opinion, anything that would get us further along with translating
ANY of the pertinent documentation for a release is a great idea! I don't
know anything about Pootle, but maybe we should give this a try.

The next step if we want to continue with this would be to make standard
"release notes" areas in the for the web sites -- English and native lang.
Juergen actually suggested something like this over a year ago but we never
got to it. Then we can figure out how to get the translations where they
need to go -- some scripting magic, no doubt.

Good suggestion and "proof of concept" testing I must say! :)


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