[Shotwell] Bug fixes (Was: Shotwell - Thoughts on work-flow and extensions)

[Bruno Girin]

On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 12:21 -0700, Lucas Beeler wrote:
> > OK so does it mean I should re-generate the .pot file or will that be
> > done automatically once the patch is merged in?
> 
> I'm sorry if I was unclear in my earlier message. At Yorba, we take
> care of POT file generation as part of our internationalization
> workflow. Our workflow is different (and somewhat more complicated)
> than that used in traditional GNOME projects for two reasons. First,
> we develop in Vala and not C or C++, and the gettext suite and Vala
> don't always play well together. Second, since we don't use the GNU
> autotools as our build system, we don't have GNOME intltool available
> to coordinate the invocation of the gettext command-line tools. As a
> result, we've had to hand-roll our own internationalization workflow
> and scripts that support it. So far, it's all working out well. What's
> more, as I noted in my earlier message, we've designed our workflow to
> be easy to hook into for outside contributors like you: all that you
> have to do is enclose your translatable strings in gettext markup. The
> workflow and build system that we use here on the backend take care of
> the rest.

Thanks for the explanation Lucas, it makes a lot of sense. And it's
great that it makes contributing to Shotwell (and other Yorba projects)
easier. I'll upload a patch for bug 1954 to trac in the next 5 minutes.

This raises a new question though. If I wanted to contribute
translations (my first language is French), what is the workflow for
that?

Regards,

Bruno