| 2008-09-03 23:35:58 |
Andrew Sayers |
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This is the third in a series of three reports based on question #43756, suggesting ways to improve the translation interface.
The text on the "Upload files for Template" page is confusing to users. An example of this page is:
https://translations.launchpad.net/remote-help-assistant/trunk/+pots/remote-help-assistant/+upload
The text currently reads:
Here you can upload either a single PO template (.pot) or a tar file containing a PO template and a set of PO files (.tar, .tar.gz or .tar.bz2). The files you upload will be imported into Launchpad shortly.
This page doesn't make it clear that the file(s) will need an automatic review, how long "shortly" is, or how this page differs from the main upload page. The first sentence is also needlessly different to that on the main upload page. A better message would be:
<p>Upload either a single file (.pot / .po) or a tar file containing a PO template and a set of PO files (.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz or .tar.bz2). The files you upload will be automatically reviewed, before being imported into this translation template. The automatic review should take an hour or two. In the unlikely event that the automatic review fails, an admin will review your upload and import it in a few days.</p>
<p><a href="../../+translations-upload>Click here</a> to add a new translation template.</p> |
This is the third in a series of three reports based on question #43756, suggesting ways to improve the translation interface.
The text on the "Upload files for Template" page is confusing to users. An example of this page is:
https://translations.launchpad.net/remote-help-assistant/trunk/+pots/remote-help-assistant/+upload
The text currently reads:
Here you can upload either a single PO template (.pot) or a tar file containing a PO template and a set of PO files (.tar, .tar.gz or .tar.bz2). The files you upload will be imported into Launchpad shortly.
This page doesn't make it clear that the file(s) will need an automatic review, how long "shortly" is, how this page differs from the main upload page, or what happens when strings in the old template don't appear in the new template. The first sentence is also needlessly different to that on the main upload page. A better message would be:
<p>Upload either a single file (.pot / .po) or a tar file containing a PO template and a set of PO files (.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz or .tar.bz2). The files you upload will be automatically reviewed before being imported into Launchpad. The automatic review should take a few hours. In the unlikely event that the automatic review fails, an admin will review your upload and import it in a few days.</p>
<p>Once your upload has been reviewed, Launchpad will update the translation pages for this template. Strings that don't appear in the new template will be removed from the translation pages, so if you have updated some strings - such as to correct spelling mistakes - then you should <a href="+export">download everything associated with your current template as a collection of PO files</a> before uploading your new template. You can open PO files in a text editor, and read through them to help write new translations. Alternatively, you can upload an old translation template to bring its associated translations.</p>
<p>If you would rather leave this template unchanged, and add another template to your project instead, <a href="../../+translations-upload>click here</a>.</p>
Note that the second paragraph addresses a problem I've encountered, where some translations were hidden when I rewrote strings while moving them into a Glade file. If Launchpad handles that sort of thing transparently in normal cases, replace the second paragraph above with this:
<p>Once your upload has been reviewed, Launchpad will update the translation pages for this template. Launchpad will usually spot updated strings and move the translations across, but can miss strings that have changed too much. If Launchpad fails to move some of your translations across, you should upload your old template to get translations back, <a href="+export">download everything associated with the old template</a> as a collection of PO files, then upload the new template again. You can open PO files in a text editor and read through them to help manually import translations.</p> |
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