Comment 4 for bug 555023

Is there any update on this?

Being able to export PO files through Launchpad API will be really useful.
With this feature, one could write a script which merge back Ubuntu translations upstream.
This way, upstream translators may stop hating Ubuntu translators for "forking" their work.
(doing the Launchpad->upstream merge manually is such a pain that, AFAIK, almost no one does it)