Our PO files contain information about location (filename and line numbers) as well as untranslated strings. Dolph suggested to me recently to import into projects only the *translated* strings and I did some investigation and implementation. I don't expect this to have any negative impact but wanted to inform you and ask for feedback. We will continue to push the full location information to transifex and leave it in the POT files that are stored in each repository. Thus if you download a file from transifex, you have all location information. During the import from transifex into the OpenStack git repositories, our scripts remove the location information as well as any untranslated strings thus reducing the files to import significantly. This also reduces the change of an import significantly since a line number change will not cause many location information to be updated. The gettext tools we use can cope fine with this smaller PO file since it contains everything that is needed - just nothing more ;) Also, it's easy to rebuild the full PO file from the date in the repository using the msgmerge command: msgmerge POT-FILE PO-FILE -o FULL-PO-FILE As a first step, I have made this change for documentation projects like openstack-manuals only: https://review.openstack.org/176313 If this works as expected, I plan to do it for other projects as well. Please review and tell me if you have any further ideas or if I overlooked something, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj@{suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Jennifer Guild, Dilip Upmanyu, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126