[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #3089: Localized values for plugin metadata

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#3089: Localized values for plugin metadata
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 Reporter:  nbachiyski                      |        Owner:  ryan    
     Type:  enhancement                     |       Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                          |    Milestone:  2.7     
Component:  i18n                            |      Version:          
 Severity:  normal                          |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-testing phpdoc  |  
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Comment (by jacobsantos):

 Yeah, no I don't really see that. If that was true, then you really just
 wasted a lot of my time and it would mean that the patch I created was in
 fact worth committing, for like !WordPress 2.5.0.

 If the external online tool is going to be translating the plugin
 metadata, then that tells me that the external tool is going to write the
 translation to the plugin metadata before the plugin is downloaded.

 So the tool is going to extract the metadata and have it translatable
 somehow and then allow translators to write in in the translation in the
 tool. When the user chooses a different language for downloading, the
 plugin metadata will be pulled out and replaced with the language
 translation.

 The only way this would make sense, is if you are adding the metadata to
 the .pot file and handling it that way. If that is the case, then the
 patch I created did in fact solve this problem and wasn't committed for at
 least 5 months.

 It would also help if this online tool existed. I think this should be
 closed in the mean time until the online tool exists and a patch needs to
 be created for it.

 It would also help if the core team could decide how they want to solve
 this problem, once and for all. It is difficult, because the
 specifications keep changing.

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