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On 2015-11-18 07:30, Akihiro Motoki wrote:
> 2015-11-18 14:34 GMT+09:00 KATO Tomoyuki <tomo at dream.daynight.jp>:
>>> On 2015-11-17 13:05, KATO Tomoyuki wrote:
>>>>> openstack-manuals is open again.
>>>>>
>>>>> We still do not publish translated manuals, I'm fixing this (needs a
>>>>> project-config change), the rest looks fine but I appreciate if you keep
>>>>> your eyes open and speak up if I missed anything,
>>>>
>>>> Andreas,
>>>>
>>>> Needless to say, not your overlook.
>>>> I think we can improve translation resource generation method in recent days.
>>>> As long as Liberty, we publish only install guides,
>>>> so we can simply generate one pot file without common-rst.
>>>> I checked our tool chain, it looks okay to improve by updating doc/generatepot-rst.
>>>> Also, openstack-doc-tools skip common-rst process if it doesn't exist.
>>>>
>>>> Thought?
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/openstack-manuals/tree/tools/generatepot-rst.sh#n38
>>>> [2] https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/openstack-doc-tools/tree/bin/doc-tools-check-languages#n63
>>>
>>> We could do - but wouldn't that make it harder to copy translations back
>>> to master?
>>
>> Here is a refined idea: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/246751/
>> I'm not sure I18n team want to copy install guide translations back to master,
>> but it uses standard common-rst.pot, so I do not think it make it harder to copy process.
>> This reduces messages from 2228 to 1849.
>> # Huge translation resources sometimes demotivate translators :)

I like the idea, thanks!

> Talking about translation merge back to master, IMO it should be avoided,
> at least we should be careful.
> In my experience, merging in Zanata sometimes leads to some confusion.
> If we use a merge in Zanata, a target branch of a merge should be
> marked read-only.
> Otherwise, some works in the target branch will be lost.

I suggest to only copy over strings that are not translated in master, 
Zanata supports this,

Andreas
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