[Mageia-i18n] [Mageia-i18m] Transifex - problem with uploading pot file to the project

Jerzy Trzeciak artusek at wp.pl
Fri Jan 28 20:57:37 CET 2011


W dniu 28.01.2011 20:43, Marcello Anni pisze:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have registered at transifex.net and created new project named Lemon
>> POS, http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/lemonpos/ - for training purposes.
>> Everything goes fine until I try to upload resources file, i.e. *.pot file.
>> After several failures (with no error message), I have read transifex
>> manual to find what may cause my bad luck.
>> I followed advice to check syntax of pot file with "msgfmt -c file.pot"
>> command.
>> This gave me message:   "some header fields still include default
>> initial values".
>> I started playing with header entries. Nothing :(
>> Gettext manual also was no helpful in this matter.
>> So finally i replaced the whole header with that included in transifex
>> manual. No change.
>> I have also tried to upload some pot files I have taken from KDE
>> translations. All of them generate the same message.
>> I tried even to upload file with header only. Nothing at all.
>> I don't know what to do in such case.
>>
>> Well, to check whether I am authorized to do anything, I joined "Chrome
>> Extension.po" small project,
>> http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/tabcloud/resource/chrome-extensionpo/.
>> I have translated it, just for fun without any problem.
>>
>> Does anybody have any idea how to solve the problem? #transifex seems to
>> be idle.
>>
>> My system:
>> cat /etc/issue
>> Mandriva Linux release 2010.2 (Official) for i586
>> Kernel 2.6.36.2-desktop-2mnb on a Dual-processor i686 / \l
>>
>> msgfmt --version
>> msgfmt (GNU gettext-tools) 0.17
>> Copyright (C) 1995-1998, 2000-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> Licencja GPLv3+: GNU GPL, wersja 3 lub nowsza
>> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jerzy
>>
>>
> just for trying, have you tried to rename .pot file with .po? no other idea on
> mind (i will let you clarify your doubts by people more experted than me : )
>
> cheers,
> Marcello
>
>
I have tried with *.po and *.pot extensions. Also I was changing name of 
the file to: lemon, lemonpos (name of source), en and some others plus 
variations of .po and .pot.

Maybe the reason is I registered myself as translator, not developer?

Jerzy


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