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On 2/26/12 12:40 PM, Michael Bauer wrote:
>> here we might run into a problem because of not having the translation
>> process in place 100%. We have to figure out which translation data is
>> the latest one, it's still not 100% clear if we really have it :-(
>
> Well, for starters, why don't we get the Pootle server up and running,
> enable all the languages that were working on localization at the last
> known date but keep all data "blank". There will be a fair number of
> locales who have local backups of their latest dataset before the old
> Pootle server went dead (I know I have) so it would be a simple case of
> uploading the po files again. That would solve a number of headaches and
> give people the chance to bring them up to date.

that is a very important info to know and shows a potential approach. We 
should start a new thread discussing this further.

Juergen

>
> And *then* worry about the rest. At the moment, everything is dead on
> the localization side and if a release is being eyed, then the longer
> that's dead, the worse a headache it becomes for the translators.
>
> Michael