STATUS.txt for translations is empty

As far as I remember, translation releases had a README.txt file with information on how to import the translation. I checked some tarballs, but all of them contained an empty README.txt. It is possible that this got messed up during the transition to the new release system.

But actually, it would be better if the packaging script would take the README.txt from the CVS repository (there are no readme files atm, afaik) which are in the actual language.

this is still a problem. perhaps dww can take a look at the packaging scripts to see what's up here...

http://drupal.org/node/207401 deals with solving this for both D5 and D6 translations.

Now renamed STATUS.txt in 5.x and named STATUS.$uri.txt in Drupal 6. Still needs to be solved, the patch at http://drupal.org/node/207401 did not solve it.

Indeed, it's totally bizarre that these files are empty. There's clear evidence that msgfmt is being called during packaging, and running it on the command line works. All I can think of that might be causing trouble here is the way we're trying to capture stderr and redirect/append it to a file? Oh, yeah, duh... check it out:

function drupal_exec($cmd) {
  exec("$cmd 2>&1", $output, $rval);
  ...
}

vs.

drupal_exec("$msgfmt --statistics $uri/$uri.po 2>> $uri/STATUS.txt")

:(

I guess I'll roll a patch for this...

Attached patch fixes the empty files. However, the resulting information isn't particularly readable or helpful, especially for a D6 translation. Here's an example, the STATUS.fr.txt file from the 6.x-1.x-dev fr translation.

Taking on doing implementation for more meaningful status information, such as http://drupalbin.com/540 Will only have time to solve it later this week.

Project module is no longer involved in translation packaging.