Fw: Re: Comments for HEAD at l10n.gnome.org are hidden when switching to branch

[Petr Kovar <pmkovar gnome org>]

A new feature dealing with the Vertimus & branching issue arrived, on Damned
Lies. See below.


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From: Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>
To: gnome-i18n <gnome-i18n gnome org>
Sent: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:48:00 +0100
Subject: Re: Comments for HEAD at l10n.gnome.org are hidden when switching
to  branch

Le mercredi 18 mars 2009 à 19:37 +0100, Claude Paroz a écrit :
> Le mercredi 18 mars 2009 à 18:25 +0000, Simos a écrit :
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > An issue that has been noted at the local GNOME EL mailing list and
> > vertimus, is that comments/submissions that have been made to
> > l10n.gnome.org for HEAD are "hidden"
> > as soon as the project switches to a branch.
> > 
> > For example, there are no comments/messages at
> > http://l10n.gnome.org/vertimus/orca/gnome-2-26/po/el
> > however, if one replaces manually 'gnome-2-26' to 'HEAD', then the
> > information appear,
> > http://l10n.gnome.org/vertimus/orca/HEAD/po/el
> > 
> > The reason we need to change by hand the URL is that we do not have
> > yet a stable 2.26 on l10n.gnome.org,
> > which would bring up a new 2.28 development release with all packages
> > being HEAD.
> > Is there a workaround here that I might be missing?
> 
> You can always reach the HEAD (and all other branches) vertimus pages
> through the main module page.
> http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca/
> 
> But the issue is a real one (and would need a formal bug report).
> A workaround would be that each time a new branch is created and when
> the HEAD branch contains some current action, a note is added to the new
> branch vertimus page, pointing to the HEAD page, something like "See
> also http://...";.

I followed the following approach, a little more general: each time you
load a vertimus page, it checks if there is some activity on any other
branch of the same module, and display a warning when it finds some.
See e.g. http://l10n.gnome.org/vertimus/orca/gnome-2-26/po/el

HTH,

Claude

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