Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

["Nathan R. Yergler" <nathan AT creativecommons.org>]

Bjorn Wijers wrote:
>>> 1) Quite a few strings are being used multiple times, so I had to
>>> translate them multiple times. Is this a feature or a bug ;) ?
>> It's a bug.  Something that needs to be done before the 2.4 release is a
>> normalization of the strings.  I've opened an issue for that in the
>> tracker (http://roundup.creativecommons.org/ccpublisher/issue43).
> 
> 
> Can Pootle assist in this? Maybe we should contact Dwayne about this, 
> 'cause it would be a killer feature for Pootle to find the dupes instead 
> of us grepping the *.po files :)

I think Pootle can assist when the strings are in the same .po file; I'm
not sure about cross-file (since our strings are split into two files).

> 
> Mhhm, both solutions need some time from us -developers- to develop, so 
> I would like to add a third option of creating a small howto in swapping 
> *.po files so people interested in helping out can act as the "automated 
> system" for now and distribute localized versions of ccPublisher 
> independant of CC. What do you think?

Not a bad idea at all; I'm at OSCON this week so won't have time myself,
but if someone wants to add that to the wiki, that'd be great.  The
manual translation instructions
(http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Translating_ccPublisher#Creating_A_Translation)
may provide a good starting point.


> 
> grtz
> BjornW
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Nathan R. Yergler
Software Engineer
Creative Commons

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