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+  Notes on translation process
+  ============================
+
+The translations for virt-manager are currently handled by the Fedora translations
+team. Thus the translators work on .po files which are in the master Fedora CVS
+repo for i18n stuff. Before each new release, the latest translated .po files are
+pulled back into the master HG repo for virt-manager, and a new virt-manager.pot
+file pushed out.
+
+The process for updates is this:
+
+
+ - Get checkout of 'virt-manager' from hg.et.redhat.com/virt/ repo
+ - Get checkout of 'virt-manager' from elvis.redhat.com:/usr/local/CVS repo
+ - Copy all the .po files from CVS repo into the po/ directory from HG
+ - Run 'make update-po'. This
+     - Rebuilds the virt-manager.pot to pull in latest strings from source
+       code files
+     - Runs 'msgmerge' on each .po file to add entries for new messages
+       and disable old ones, etc
+ - Commit this to HG repo
+ - Copy the virt-manager.pot & msgmerge'd  .po files back to CVS repo
+ - Commit the CVS repo
+
+Running this only at time of release isn't entirely ideal since translators 
+will always be one release behind the latest source strings. Thus ideally
+the sync-up should be done on a weekly basis, as well as immediately before
+release.