Re: [glob2-devel] French translation updated: problem with translation

[Joe Wells]

"Leo Wandersleb" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi
>
>> We should make a script that greps source code for translations
>> keys and suggests removal for outdated keys.
>
> To really get cool translation support we would need a little web
> project.
> #log in using your wiki credentials
> #choose the languages to edit
> #maybe choose new languages
> #*a list of all keys (text) and the respective translations (input)
>   appears
> #*last column is the screenshot using this key's text/maybe shown in
>   a div on mouse over
> #edit
> #press commit-button
> #*now the changes get commited to a local hg repository
> #*a developer can now push this back to the main repository and mark
>   languages as complete/incomplete/missing and add the authors to the
>   authors file (we have mail adresses to manage this)
>
> Leo
>
> P.S.: My plan was to do this using ajax and commit every changed
> word immediatly. But obviously i stuck at the efford beeing too
> much. The proposed above should be far easier and only tries to
> handle the bare minimum needed:
> * easy contribution for everybody (html, wiki login)
> * record of who did what for the authors file (hg, wiki login)
> * no pain undoing stuff (hg)

I think it would be better to use standard and well supported
translation helping tools than try to write our own.

-- 
Joe