Bug 6816

Summary: Pre commit hooks for i18n
Product: Infrastructure Reporter: Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr>
Component: OthersAssignee: Sysadmin Team <sysadmin-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: filip.komar, qiilaq69, rverschelde, sysadmin-bugs
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: Linux   
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Description Oliver Burger 2012-07-18 10:10:06 CEST 
We should have some pre-commit hooks for the translations in svn.

Namely svn should check the syntax of uploaded po files using
"msgfmt -c"
and it should reject the po files, when they do not pass that check.

That would help us a great deal...
Filip Komar 2012-07-18 10:19:47 CEST

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Comment 1 Marek Laane 2012-07-18 11:21:17 CEST 
As in https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1095 I recommend to look at how KDE has done it: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kde-common/svn/hooks/test-pofiles.pl?revision=1099588&view=markup probably, though http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kde-common/svn/hooks/ may contain more interesting ...

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Comment 2 Filip Komar 2012-07-19 20:33:15 CEST 
Old mail from misc about that:
https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-i18n/2011-May/001549.html
Comment 3 Filip Komar 2014-11-05 16:47:32 CET 
Besides check -c I suggest also option to unify line length of po files too as they are messy right now:
msgmerge -c -w 80
Comment 4 Rémi Verschelde 2015-02-06 12:14:46 CET 
Let's ping Colin on that one after Mageia 5 is released, he's currently quite busy fixing release_blockers ;-)

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