Re: How you can translate things now, and a plan for the i18n series going forward

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 21:12, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi both. I've been on a hiatus from Git development, so I haven't
>> picked up ab/i18n again, but I still plan to and to get it included in
>> Git.
>
> Thanks.
>
>>     *** TODO Introduce a skeleton no-op gettext, just the
>> infrastructure minus the interesting stuff
>>
>>         I.e. just add:
>>
>>             #define N_(s) (s)
>>             #define _(s) (s)
>>
>>     *** TODO Add no-op C gettextize patches
>>
>>         This will change "foo" to _("foo") everywhere, but will be a no-op
>>         due to it being macroed out.
>
> It would be best to get this as early as possible while not many topics
> are in 'next'; it is preferrable if we can rebase other topics in 'pu' on
> top of the result of this step.
>
>>     *** TODO Add no-op Shell/Perl gettextize patches
>>
>>         Due to the nature of these languages these can't be macroed out,
>>         but it's still easy to have a no-op wrapper function.
>
> Yes.  After the above two steps are done, we can pretty much independently
> advance and tweak i18n topic from other changes.
>
>>     *** TODO Add po/README etc.
>>
>>         The documentation about how to add translations etc.
>>
>>     *** TODO Add translations
>>
>>         Add the po/*.po files. Since we have no-op translations everywhere
>>         we can translate git with xgettext + po editing, even though the
>>         translations aren't being used yet.
>>
>>     *** TODO Introduce the real gettext in a later patch + tests
>>
>>         Once the rest is all in this will be a much smaller change.
>
> The last two could probably be swapped, but I think we are on the same
> page as to the overall steps and direction.

Right, good to hear we're on the same page.

I'll be doing a Perl release on the 20th, and I'm traveling around,
but I hope to get around to this sooner rather than later.