On Jan 10, 2008 9:10 PM, Drupal Norge drupalnorge@gmail.com wrote:
This message should have been out when the translation templates for D6 were published. There are some of us who are very eager in releasing translation files for development, and since we weren't informed that the packaging scripts aren't ready yet, we have already tagged and published a release (tried anyway) of the D6 core traslation files.
Anyway, in addition to informing translators in the mailing list, I think that this important message should also be stated in the readme.txt of the D6 translation templates. Something like: "The packaging scripts are being modified to accomodate the new naming conventions as of time of writing. In the meantime, do not attempt to tag an official release of your core translations for D6. Please check http://drupal.org/node/207401 for the status of this issue."
Personally speaking, I would have not tagged and tried to release our files if we were informed earlier about this issue. 8-) . Well...sorry for giving Derek and Gabor unnecessary and extra work.
No problem. Your job is to make sure your translation file names strictly follow the template file names (eg. where it says root.pot you should have root.po, where it says modules-menu.pot you should have modules-menu.po). The file names are very important for the packaging script, as it figures out the placement from the file names.
Sorry for not being clear about where packaging stands now. In http://drupal.org/node/202631 (which is linked to from the RC1 announcement's translators section) I included testing information for your local packaging, but did not mention that the central packaging is not in place. Thankfully it is not all complex, and we hope to fix it in the coming days (hopefully this week). I'll try to be more clear about this in the future.
Gabor