[Mythtv-translators] ANNOUNCE: MythTV Translation Status monitoring tool

[Nick Morrott]

On 19 August 2010 17:08, Kenni Lund <kenni at kelu.dk> wrote:
>> Inspired by the XMLTV validation tester [1], I've repurposed the code
>> [2] and put together a tool to monitor the status of all translations
>> in MythTV trunk, by revision, language and component. The design is
>> simple and mostly borrowed from the XMLTV tester, but I hope it
>> conveys the important information clearly:
>
> That's really nice, I was going to setup something like this, but you
> beat me to it :)
>
> Would it be possible to add the latest -fixes branch to the status
> page? IMHO that would say much more about the status of the language,
> since it doesn't really make that much sense to update a language in
> trunk, until the themestrings are updated just prior to release of a
> new MythTV version.

Certainly possible, and a very sensible idea. I might add the -fixes
to a separate set of status pages to keep trunk and previous fixes
branches separate (would make maintenance a lot easier).

Coincidentally, the themestrings have /just/ been updated, and you can
see the marked drop-off in the overall % numbers on the status page.

> Take the Danish translation as an example: According to the trunk
> status page, only 88% is translated in trunk (giving it an orange
> color - a bit like a warning). That's really not because we're lacking
> behind, it's just because we don't send any translations before the
> themestrings are updated in SVN, which should happen somewhere around
> the feature freeze. If you make the same statistics on the latest
> stable version, you should get 100% (or perhaps 99% if a string or two
> have been changed since the 0.23 release).

I will try and get this done in the next week.

> Another thing, do you generate new themestrings every time you
> generate new statistics for trunk? If not, the current statistics only
> shows half the truth.

The status updates are currently using an uncompiled source checkout,
so themestringstool is not run (only lupdate). This can be changed in
the script.

> I would probably generate the new themestrings on each trunk status
> generation but just leave it out for each -fixes status generation, as
> it doesn't/shouldn't change any more after release.

Perhaps it might be a good idea to update the status less (~1
update/month?) during the development cycle (release -> release +5
months) and then update perhaps once or twice a week once the code is
frozen and translations start to be submitted and applied?  I notice
from 0.23-fixes that translations are backported after release, so it
seems sensible to continue to track the -fixes branch up until the
next version becomes frozen and all efforts go into that.

Many thanks for your (and Nick's) very useful feedback,
Nick

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Nick Morrott

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