How are rosetta translation updates merged back into upstream .po?

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Rosetta can already distinguish between a PO file that comes from an 
Ubuntu package, and a PO file associated with an upstream release, and 
we'll encourage upstreams to manage their translations in Rosetta. Over 
the next couple of months we'll build tools to make it easy to move 
translations between upstream and the package.

Frederik Dannemare wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I just began translating a little last night via rosetta.
>
>I noticed for example "Kaffeine" as one of the apps to translate. Now I 
>have already translated Kaffeine (and do it for every release), but I 
>was wondering: 
>
>Let's say I missed ten strings on my last upload to the upstream author 
>of Kaffeine and now somebody else translates those ten strings via 
>rosetta - how will that translation update merge with my upstream 
>translation? I mean, it would be a waste of time if that other person's 
>work never showed up in the upstream .po.
>
>Best regards,
>  
>