[Qgis-community-team] Transifex and old translations

[Alexander Bruy]

Agreed. That's why I used GIT and manual .po files update
until final decision in favor of Transifes was taken.

2013/11/22 Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>:
> Uhmmm ..
> Bad .. thats very bad ..
> But IIRC that was one of the reasons I initially skipped using
> transifex for the GUI (because the GUI is just too important)
>
> Hope we will find a solution so that we can switch GUI translation too ..
>
> kind regards
> Werner
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Alexander Bruy
> <alexander.bruy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just found very annoying issue that (I suspect) caused by Transifex.
>> After downloading .po files from Transifex (no matter via web interface or
>> using tx client) all old translations are empty.
>>
>> So if I translated some text and then later original text and .po file will
>> updated, my previous translation doesn't keep. E.g. initially we have text
>>
>> "When starting QGIS for the first time not all core plugins are loaded."
>>
>> and I translated it and pushed this translation to Transifex. After this text
>> updated to
>>
>> "When starting |qg| for the first time not all core plugins are loaded."
>>
>> and all translations also updated. When I download updated file I can
>> see previous version of this string but with empty translation. And as result
>> I should translate this string again from scratch.
>>
>> Is it me or this issue really exists? If this is not my fault, than I
>> think this is
>> a big issue and we should try to find solution or allow translators to use
>> other workflows that preserve old strings.
>>
>> --
>> Alexander Bruy
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Alexander Bruy