[wp-polyglots] About translation files

[José Fontainhas]

Hello,

We (pt_PT) have finally become 100% comfortable with the translation 
workflow for WordPress (which allows us to release RCs at about the same 
time as the original version, btw), meaning:

-have a \wordpress-i18n\* structure locally for checking out wordpress.pot
-have the <locale>\* structure locally for committing changes to the 
repository
-updating the <locale>.po from the latest wordpress.pot
-editing the changed <locale>.po, generating a changed <locale>.mo
-committing <locale>\*

It works pretty well, but...

We are going to try and setup the same workflow for the other 
translations (basically every .pot we can lay our hands on :) ... ). My 
questions are:

-As far as I can tell, we've got bbPress covered,
-Is there, or will there be a SVN location for wordpressmu.pot?
-Is there, or will there be a SVN location for rosetta.pot? (for the 
<locale>.wordpress.org)
-Are there any plans to reuse strings translated from all (or some) .pot 
files in wordpress.com? The reason I ask is that there are nightmarish 
discrepancies between the hosted version of WP and the downloadable one. 
It seems to me that some kind of consistency could be achieved and 
translate.wordpress.com is not the way to go when you've got 1000s of 
strings to translate. (Also our "digging" showed that there exists 
indeed a wpcom.pot file, not surprisingly under Nikolay's bg_BG branch, 
http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/bg_BG/wpcom)

Sorry if sounds confusing, just trying to gather some thoughts.

Thanks

Jose
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