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One thing to note.

If we have another place where we can view generated POT files,
I am okay to drop POT files from our git repos.

I don't think it is helpful to dowload POT files from Zanata because
we need to download them every time we want to check locations of strings.

2016-04-21 21:09 GMT+09:00 Akihiro Motoki <amotoki at gmail.com>:
> As a translator, I usually use POT files to locate where a particular
> source string is defined in a source code.
> At the moment, Zanata provides no way that translators can identify a
> location in a source code of a particular string,
> so POT files are really useful for translators without development environments.
> I wrote translator tips to use POT files at [1] .
>
> In addition, even if a translator has an environment to generate POT files,
> most git repo does not provide a convenient way to extract strings.
> The infra script has it own functions of message extraction and there
> is no convenient way to do the same thing.
>
> If this issue is over, I don't think we need to have POT files in our tree.
>
> All of my comment above are from the point of view of translators.
>
> Akihiro
>
> [1] http://docs.openstack.org/developer/i18n/translation_tips.html
>
>
> 2016-04-21 20:54 GMT+09:00 Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse.com>:
>> Looking at the daily imports we do for our translations, a lot of that
>> is importing pot files (translation source).
>>
>> Do we really need these for anything in the git trees?
>>
>> We've stopped importing those pot files which are not translated at all
>> but import pot files that have translations and update them daily (only
>> if there are real translations as well).
>>
>> I really wonder whether we need these pot files in our git repositories
>> at all,
>>
>> Andreas
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