From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27841 invoked by alias); 3 Nov 2004 22:02:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27818 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2004 22:02:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 3 Nov 2004 22:02:20 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iA3M2HNb024091 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:02:18 -0500 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (to-dhcp51.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.151]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iA3M2Hr25892; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:02:17 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB67129D8C; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:02:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41895560.4030801@gnu.org> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 22:02:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041020) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: GDB 6.4 and translations Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00029.txt.bz2 Just so everyone is on the same page with this challenge. GDB 6.3 is going to include a .pot file: $ bunzip2 < gdb-6.2.90.tar.bz2 | tar tf - | grep gdb.pot gdb-6.2.90/gdb/po/gdb.pot (it's generated as part of the release process) but won't include any corresponding translation. Going on to 6.4, we'll need to quickly and efficiently: - mark up a sizeable portion of the text - ship the .pot file off for translation (actually I've been asked to point at a download area - hence .50 and snapshots/ directory changes) (I've not yet pushed a gdb.pot file because it is effectively empty) - wait for the translations - integrate requested text changes and prototype text and then iterate a bit. There are two time consuming tasks here: - mark up text - translate For the second of those - translate - the translation project [understandably] asks that they be allowed a significant amount of time (months not weeks) for their work. Because of this, we'll need to complete the bulk of the mark-up (create .pot files) very early in the 6.4 release cycle as otherwize we'll find ourselves either squeezing the translation group's schedule, or having to let the translations slip out to 6.4.1,.2,.... enjoy, Andrew