Tokio Kikuchi wrote:

It is free that docstrings are left untranslated but at least they are useful if the site administrators want to use --help options or help() funcitons. I know translators want to put higher priority on member messages than admin messages or docstrings. It may be inconvenient but they are just mixed in the mailman.pot file.

However, msgfmt.py and pygettext.py are not even admin files - they are only used by mailman developers. So it should cause no problems to users if the messages in these files were excluded from mailman.pot. To do so, the docstring.files rule in messages/Makefile.in might read docstring.files: @echo "Calculating script input files for pygettext" (cd ..; grep -d skip -l -i '^#! .*python.*' `find bin cron scripts -name ".#*" -prune -o -print` | grep -v pygettext >| grep -v msgfmt.py | grep -v pygettext.py | messages/$@) (cd ..; ls Mailman/Commands/cmd_*.py >> messages/$@) (this is untested, though) Alternatively, these two scripts might be moved into the messages directory. Regards, Martin