Mutt.pot file for 2.0 release

[Remco Rijnders]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 09:57:24AM -0700, Kevin wrote in 
<X5b/9AEx+5zyPIfj at afu.lan>:
>On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 09:21:41PM +0100, keld at keldix.com wrote:
>>I am new here, but have translated much oss sw for about 20 years, including gnu tp, kde,
>>gnome and various distros to danish, I wonder why we do not use some of this machinery,
>>eg. gnu tp, this would do some things automagicly, such as merging old messages, statistics,
>>version control and maybe access to more translators.
>>
>>Kevin says he is open to discuss this.
>>
>>so should we move to gnu tp?
>
>Hi Everyone, and welcome Keld!
>
>Keld emailed me offlist, but I encouraged him to email the list to get 
>a conversation going.
>
>To be clear, I have no problems with the current organization of 
>things. I think you all are doing great, and everything works well 
>(for me at least).
>
>However, I also have little experience with how other projects run 
>their translation.  Keld asked if we had considered GNU tp, and my 
>answer is that no one had mentioned it.
>
>If you have experience with GNU tp, or opinions about the way the 
>current process is run (positive or negative), please don't hesitate 
>to chime in.
>
>Also, this obviously is about *future* possibilities.  Let's keep the 
>2.0 release as usual - on the mutt-po list or GitLab Merge Request.

Assuming that gnu tp is located at http://translationproject.org/ , I think it
could be of help to keep mutt translations more comprehensive and up to date
than the current system, which I also have no issues with.

One point of concern or which I am unclear on: *If* we make this change, does
that mean that all of our current translators will also have to start using
this? I see on their webpage that it says: "Let the teams do their work - Please
do everything in your power to respect the autonomy of translation teams.
Do not try to push or pull on teams or translators, nor otherwise interfere with
them. If a team does not work fast or good enough for your taste, this is a
matter between the team and the users of that language." (...) "Do not edit or
change the PO files in your repository directly, as this would undermine the
authority of the language teams and defeat their purpose. Also do not accept any
PO file from a translator directly, but please point the person who offers it at
translationproject.org/html/translators.html ." It reads to me a bit that if our
current translators want to continue translating mutt, they will have to join
this project and have to join a team, even when they might not be interested in
translating anything other than mutt.

Remco