Hi, On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl> wrote:
A good improvement recently was the approach for systempreferences. They are inserted with the general sysprefs.sql in the root folder, and optionally updated by a translation in the language folder. So the pref comes always in, translation depending on others. (I think we should extend that approach to the other files now: insert in English, only update translatable things in the other languages. Example: only update name, title and content for a notice, only liblibrarian and libopac for frameworks, etc. )
I think this is a good idea. With some more work, there's also no reason why the text couldn't be extracted into .pot files for exposure to the normal translation tools.
For some folders there are already 'informal' maintainers. Couldn't we just formalize that someone can step forward to maintain such a folder and let devs just propose changes to the general files and/or the en-folder ?
Sure, if folks are willing to step up and take on responsibility for a localization. Eventually, however, all such strings ought to be handled by the existing translation framework. Once support for that is in place, the main purpose for language-specific SQL scripts would be setting localization-dependent configuration defaults (e.g., like the fr-FR unimarc_standard_system_preferences.sql). One thing that I think we should ensure, however, is that if we adopt this idea, that correct functioning of Koha should not depend on any action by localization maintainers. In other words, regardless of which language you pick during installation, one should always have a functioning system that includes the necessary default values. One way to do that might be to move the globally mandatory bits of installer/data/mysql/en/mandatory into a new installer/data/mysql/global/mandatory directory that always gets run during installation. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: gmc@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org