[Pkg-isocodes-devel] pre-POT files for isocodes

[Benno Schulenberg]

Tobias Toedter wrote:
> On Thursday 29 May 2008 14:07:54 Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > Christian Perrier wrote:
> > > we should probably send files to the TP *before* our releases.
> >
> > That would be good.  Although I would prefer to see URLs of the
> > relevant POT files; it's easier to handle.
>
> Hm, apparently, I missed sending you the announcement of version
> 2.1, sorry.

Okay.

> About the pre-release POT files: Would it be 
> sufficient to just provide the POT files in a tarball, or do you
> need the whole package?

A tarball of the POT files and then a URL of this tarball would be 
perfect.

(For normal packages the TP ask for a prerelease tarball, so 
translators can look in the source for some context.  But the 
isocodes are contextless words, so just the POT files is okay.)

> And could that tarball be removed after 
> the official release?

The POTs tarball could be removed as soon as the files have been 
announced to the translators.  The TP stores copies of the POT 
files, to merge the translator's submission against, for some 
rudimentary verification.

> > How long before a release do you prepar these POT files?
>
> They are always current in our SVN repository [1].
> [1] <http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-isocodes/trunk/iso-codes/>

Thanks.  But that would still require browsing, downloading, and 
transfering each file to the TP machine.  A URL of a POTs tarball 
is much easier: I can grab the files with one command on the TP 
server itself.

Regards,

Benno