Ted Gould <ted@...11...> writes:

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 02:04 +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote:

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the conversion of the tutorial translations to PO format is done. (There are a few small things left, but the large task is finished). I'll now work on polishing the Makefile support and documenting the translation flow.

I think this is great. One question, is there a reason we shouldn't merge to the two .po files (app and tutorial)? I was curious if that would be easier for translators.

That could be done eventually, but I guess it might be rather fragile. Right now at least, they live in different toplevel directories, and I guess many people have them checked out of SVN separately (like myself). Then, it's multiple tutorials, and each of them depends on files like the illustrations, header and footer etc. Also, tutorial development is still pretty much decoupled from application development (it maybe shouldn't be though :)

While it's easier for translators to work on a single file, it might have a negative effect on morale if that single file is so huge. And it also would be harder to coordinate among multiple translators.

So overall, I think it's not enough gain for the pain.

Cheers Colin