Easier bulk download of PO files

[Martin Pitt]

It took me a fair amount of time to find out how to download a PO file at all, this is hidden very well now

It took me a fair amount of time to find out how to download a PO file at all, this is hidden very well now. On the overview page of all languages there should be a direct link to the PO file after each language, and the page should offer to download a tarball with all available translations for the current product.

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

We are working on it now.

Should be ready really soon.

[Brian Sutherland (jinty)]

I wrote a small python script to download translations from rosetta, perhaps it might be useful:

http://source.schooltool.org/svn/trunk/schoolbell/get-rosetta-translations.py

It:
  - cycles through a given set of locales saving them to the filesystem based on a filename pattern
  - verifies that the downloaded file has at least 50% of the lines of the old
  - verifies that msgfmt can compile the file
  - is fully unit tested

Please let me know if you find it useful.

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

We just added a way to request tarball downloads. The code is already in the server but we have a small problem that hope will be fixed tomorrow.

The functionality is that you choose the languages you want to download and Rosetta will prepare then and send you an email with the link to download it. We are doing it that way now because that operation takes a lot of time and many times the download request timeouts before getting the file.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

Pitti, I wonder if our implemented solution solves your problem or if you still are looking to download individual PO files. If you are, can you explain to me why you need this feature?

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

I'd ask Brian Sutherland (jinty-lists) to see if the feature made his life easier, but he has no validated email :-(

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

Our current implementation lets you download individual PO files too.

Cheers.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

Then the original question comes back: is the link to download the PO files prominent enough to solve the problem for the reporter?

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

(Making bulk downloading easier to find is now reported as bug 76075.)