Hallo.

This is a first attempt to define a work-flow for sending Novell
translations back to the upstream.


What you download here?

These files are preprocessed po-difference files comparing of Novell
translation project translations and the latest upstream translation.
They are intended to make upstreaming as straightforward as possible.

Here are original unprocessed Novell translations:
https://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/opensuse-i18n/branches/SLE11/lcn/


Proposed work-flow for merging of Novell downstream translations
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If your language is in "new" and you are a package maintainer:
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1) Download all po files in "new" directory.

2) Add translations to the repository and start upstream maintenance.

3) Do standard steps for adding a new language (LINGUAS/ALL_LINGUAS
   update).

4) Upload them to the upstream project.

It can be done by the upstream maintainer. Particular language knowledge
is not required.


If your language is in "updates" and you are a translation maintainer:
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Suppose that your language is ${LNG}

1) Verify that you have msgcat utility installed (gettext-tools or
   gettext package).

2) Download your latest upstream ${LNG}.po file and Novell's
   ${LNG}_added.po, ${LNG}_changed.po, ${LNG}_changed_review.po and
   merge_tool script.

3) If ${LNG}_changed_review.po exists, open it in a text editor and
   review all changes. First item is your translation, second item is a
   translation proposed by Novell translators.

4) If you don't agree with some changes, edit ${LNG}_changed.po and
   remove corresponding strings. Please send us a feedback about your
   change. If you agree with all changes, go to step 6.

6) Download your latest po file, place it to the sane directory and
   perform the merge. If could be done in the shell by calling following
   command:


sh ./merge_tool ${LNG} # replace ${LNG} by your language name, e. g. "de", "zh_CN" etc. or define LNG=de or so.

7) Review the new file and its header.

8) Upload the new file to the upstream project.

It can be done only by the translation maintainer. Particular language
knowledge is required to perform steps 3 and 4.


If your language is in "updates" and you are a translation maintainer or
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package maintainer and ${LNG}_changed.po does not exist:
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1) You can do the above. The new translation will never be worse than
   the previous.

It can be done by the upstream maintainer. Particular language knowledge
is not required in this case.