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My personal recommendation is to use the Java client, at least to begin with. I know it isn't as easy to install as a pure python client, but it does offer far more functionality and flexibility. Installation is a one-time thing, and once it's up and running there's no need to change it. The main maintainer for the python client is another Red Hatter outside of our core team; I can put you in contact with him as well so he can answer some questions and maybe start adapting some of the newer features to the python client.

In terms of workflow (and I must admit I'm not all that familiar with yours), most projects simply keep their zanata.xml in the source repos and update manually, but in most cases adding or removing languages is very infrequent. I have created a bugzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156236) so we can get the conversation started on auto-updating those language codes.

Regards,

Carlos

Carlos A. Munoz
Software Engineering Supervisor
Engineering - Internationalization
Red Hat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Jaeger" <aj at suse.com>
To: camunoz at redhat.com
Cc: openstack-i18n at lists.openstack.org, openstack-infra at lists.openstack.org
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 9:58:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Openstack-i18n] [OpenStack-Infra]  Pootle and Zanata trial

On 10/23/2014 03:01 AM, Carlos Munoz wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> The reason why the python client doesn't find your PO files is because
> it is expecting them to be in a strictly standard place for po files.
> Because you have that LC_MESSAGES directory, that throws the python
> client off base. This is one of the things we have improved in our java
> client. So I'm going to guide you through the same exact steps you are
> trying here, but with the java client.

Thanks!

So, the question is whether this gets fixed in the python client - or
whether we should use the java client...

> [...]

> Now, to answer your specific questions at the end:
> 
> * (ad 7): How can I upload the translation files via command line for an
> initial import?
> 
> I think I covered that in my series of steps above, as it was really an
> initial push from the source repo. Let me know if you still have
> questions there.

No, looks fine.

> * (ad 5) What happens if more languages get added on the server, how to
> update the local zanata.xml file? Or is there a way to download it
> automatically using the client?
> 
> That is currently a manual process because the server doesn't contain
> all the information that you might have customized (like I did in my
> example) in your zanata.xml. Having said that, it should not be very
> difficult to implement a client feature that lets you update the
> languages from the project in Zanata.

Yes, with our workflow this is needed.

Do you have a proposal for a better workflow than the one we're using?
What are others doing?

> 
> I hope I've shed some light on the zanata client workings. As usual, let
> me know if you have any other questions.

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