[TYPO3-translators] How often (and how) are translation files rebuilt?

[Anders Gissel]

Hello all,


I have been in the process of finishing up a few Danish translations for 
a couple of new extensions (most notably YAG and Powermail) and starting 
on others. Some of the files are still incomplete, while others have 
been translated fully. Case in point, I completed all translations for 
YAG on friday.

However, when I query the translation server today, either I get no new 
translations, which in itself is okay... I can live with some lag. But 
there's a far worse problem: if I remove all temporary LL-files and 
recheck, extensions like Powermail and YAG do get new translations, but 
they are all empty - meaning they look something like this:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<T3locallangExt>
   <data type="array">
     <languageKey index="da" type="array">
       <label index="pleaseChoose"/>
       <label index="pi1_title"/>
       <label index="pi1_plus_wiz_description"/>
       <label index="Tx_Powermail_Domain_Model_Mails.senderName"/>
       <label index="Tx_Powermail_Domain_Model_Mails.senderMail"/>
       <label index="Tx_Powermail_Domain_Model_Mails.subject"/>
       ...


The XLF-files are no different.

This, in turn, effectively removes all labels from the plugin when used 
in a Danish context. This is hardly ideal. I can't be the first to 
discover this issue, so can anyone tell me why this happens, and if 
there's anything that needs to be done before the actual translations 
are included properly on the server? All the information I can find on 
the issue says "the translation files are rebuilt each night", but if 
that's the case, they are being built from some other, unknown source.


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Med venlig hilsen,
Anders Gissel
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