[Mythtv-translators] How to create new language files?

[Nicolas Riendeau]

Hi Kenni,

On 9/24/2010 4:00 PM, Kenni Lund wrote:
> Nicolas, we could also consider just to do it for all of the current
> languages...as I see it, there's really no reason why a translator
> should be playing with this at all.

I can see both advantages and disadvantages to what you are proposing.

pros:

- As long as it is a language that is already supported (at least 
partially) it will make the translator job slightly easier. The main 
problem currently is not that it is difficult to add a new translation, 
it is that it is undocumented. We are already asking them to do things 
that are a lot more difficult to do than that (to use Trunk).

- It might encourage people to fill them in if they already exist.

cons:

- It only helps translators who work on a language that's already 
supported, not translators who want to add support for a language which 
is not already supported.

- It will definitely make it harder to know if this is a new or an 
updated translation (poor Matt (skd5aner) will not be able to log this 
correctly in the release notes).

If we do it I would suggest only doing it for currently maintained 
languages though...

Please let me know if you want my help if you want to go through with this.

Have a nice day!

Nicolas