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This document provides some general rules to deploy a translation process
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that will ease the work of maintainers (upstream and distribution
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maintainers) and translators (or translation teams).
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Translators usually fetch a POT (for a new translation) or retrieve the current
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PO for their language, then they translate the untranslated strings and
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update the translation of the strings marked as fuzzy.
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Updating files
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Translators need to know if a PO has to be updated:
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* they can verify the POs in the version control system or in the
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distributed archives/packages
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* they can be informed by the translation teams, which automatically
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check the status of the POs in various packages.
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We want to avoid translators to be notified by a user reporting that
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some strings are not translated even if the PO contains neither untranslated nor
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fuzzy string.
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Thus it is important to ensure that the POTs are up-to-date with the
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original documents and that the POs contain the same strings as the
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POTs.
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1. Upstream maintainers should update the POTs according to the original
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documents and update the POs according to these up-to-date POTs when they
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distribute an archive.
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2. If the switch to po4a was done in a distribution, the source package
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should also contain up-to-date translation materials.
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3. If the documentation is patched by the distribution, the maintainer
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must not forget to update the POTs and POs.
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It is important to ensure that the translation materials are updated
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automatically.
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Architecture
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A standardized architecture of the source tree will help the translation
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teams when they try to detect the POTs that need to be updated.
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Thus we recommend the following architecture:
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/doc/
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/doc/en/
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/doc/en/
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/doc/po4a/
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/doc/po4a/add_<ll>/
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/doc/po4a/po4a.cfg
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/doc/po4a/po/
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/doc/po4a/po/<pkg>.pot
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/doc/po4a/po/<ll>.po
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/doc/translated/<ll>/
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Or, if you want to avoid a big POT and split it according to the packages,
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documents, formats, or subjects, you can use the following architecture:
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/
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/doc/
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/doc/en/
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/doc/en/
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/doc/po4a/
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/doc/po4a/add_<ll>/
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/doc/po4a/<pkg1>/po4a.cfg
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/doc/po4a/<pkg1>/po/
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/doc/po4a/<pkg1>/po/<pkg1>.pot
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/doc/po4a/<pkg1>/po/<ll>.po
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/doc/translated/<ll>/
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It is important to avoid a build failure if a generated
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translation cannot be generated (the PO is too outdated, an addendum
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cannot be applied, etc.). You should therefore use wildcards or test if the file
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was generated in the 'install' or 'dist' rules
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Examples
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========
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Using po4a upstream
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When po4a is used upstream, we recommend to run po4a in the 'dist' rule.
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This will update the POT and POs, and will generate the translated documents.
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These translated documents can be distributed in the source archive if the
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maintainer don't want to add a build dependency on po4a. You should then
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add an autoconf check on po4a. It will allow you to update the documentation
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if po4a is available on your system. If po4a is not available, documents
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will be distributed without being synced with the original version, but the
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build process won't fail.
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It is important to distribute the POT and POs in the source archive.
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A typical dist rule could then be:
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dist:
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po4a <package>.cfg
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...
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If automake is used, the following could also be used.
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dist-hook:
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po4a <package>.cfg
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...
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Using po4a in a distribution
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(Debian packaging is taken as an example, you will have to adapt this to
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your distribution)
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To ensure that the source of a Debian package contains only up-to-date POT
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and POs, you should run po4a in the 'clean' rule
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of debian/rules. The translated documents can be generated in the 'build'
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(or 'build-indep') rule:
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clean:
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# Update the POT and POs
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cd <...>/po4a && po4a --no-translations <package>.cfg
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# Delete translated documentation
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rm -rf <...>/translated
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build:
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# Generate the translations
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cd <...>/po4a && po4a <package>.cfg
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However, you should try to avoid distribution-specific build systems, to
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ensure the portability of your software.
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Or, if using po4a-build:
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dist:
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# Update the POT and POs
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po4a-build --pot-only -f po4a-build.conf
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$(MAKE) -C po pot
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