Re: Moduleset Reorganization vs. L10N

[Kenneth Nielsen <k nielsen81 gmail com>]

2010/10/12 Gabor Kelemen <kelemeng gnome hu>:
> 2010-10-12 17:41 keltezéssel, Gil Forcada írta:
>>
>> Then l10n.gnome.org should make commits in the git.gnome.org version and
>> the maintainer should only had to pick the translations from there.
>>
>>
>
> No, please do not want to rely on "then the maintaner will commit the
> files/merge the branch".
>
> He won't, sorry.
>
> This is of course the worst case scenario, but we should be prepared for
> that. For example, we already have two external deps for which the
> translation process relies on the maintainer committing po files from
> Bugzilla. Of these two, one maintainer commits such translations, the
> other(s) do not[1].
>
> Another similar example is GNU TP, where pot files are updated when the
> maintainer pushes them, and translations are also committed by the
> maintainer. These events may or may not happen, consequence is that
> GStreamer stats are out of sync between TP and Damned-lies[2].
>
> This shows to me that expecting the maintainer to push our translations is
> not a reliable process (it involves busy humans, yay!), so we should try to
> search for solutions where the only human involved in pushing translations
> to the repository is the L10N team's committer.

Yes it would be best to do the syncing back and forth without human
intervention. But as someone already mentioned it should be possible
to set it up automatically with some clever cron jobs.

\Kenneth