[Zope3-dev] Re: translation of zope3

[Dmitry Vasiliev]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Christophe Combelles wrote:
>> Is translations.launchpad.net the regular and recommended way of 
>> translating zope3 ?
> 
> Yes.

I'm not sure they're synchronizing frequently with the repository.

> You bring a good point to my attention. Now that each package is its own 
> project with a separate release cycle, we should split up the 
> translations and maintain them for each package. Mostly 'zope.app.*' 
> packages (with a few exceptions such as zope.formlib) will have 
> translations.
> 
> Given that the extraction tool left source markers in the translation 
> files, I think this task could be automated. Would be a fun project for 
> somebody :)

I've already thought about it and I think the following steps should be 
performed:

1. Move all Python modules from zope.app.locales to zope.i18nmessageid 
(or maybe to zope.i18n?).
2. Write a tool for splitting up translations. I think the tool will be 
useful not only for the case and it would be cool if the tool could 
extract, split and merge translations.
3. Split up the existing translations.
4. Remove zope.app.locales altogether.

If nobody objects I can perform the steps above.

Open questions:

- What about translations.launchpad.net? Is there are way to create 
templates for all translated packages in the zope3 project?
- When the next release? :-)

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