[translations] D6 core translations are not yet ready to be released

[Gábor Hojtsy]

On Jan 10, 2008 9:10 PM, Drupal Norge <drupalnorge at 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