Re: Updating svn head, trunk and branch.

["Christian Rose" <menthos gnome org>]

On 3/1/08, Anna Jonna Armannsdottir <annaj hi is> wrote:
> I do not quite understand the advice given in
>  Other hints in the LocalisationGuide. It says:
>  http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/LocalisationGuide#head-a3983f3a5960c2e1d2ef4dae83e9c8a200067216
>  > Don't leave it ages to get stuff on the branch. We fell for this.
>  > However long it takes to check out the branch and update your
>  > translation, and however painful it is, if you intend to do both HEAD
>  > and branch, apply the changes to both. If you don't, you will meet a
>  > day when you spend hours and hours and hours doing nothing but feeding
>  > stuff back onto the branch.
>
>  I presume that a translator can only concentrate on one .po file, at
>  a time. If that is correct, then the translator must choose between
>  branches and trunk/head.
>  Is it a better choice to always stick tho the trunk, and then update
>  the branches later.
>  Or is it better to update one branch or several branches, and then
>  updating the trunk/head?

If you're just starting your translation work, my advise would be to
concentrate on trunk/head, and only update branches with your work
from trunk/head if you have the time for it.

What's in trunk/head will live on, whereas branches are by definition
a dead end, so precious time/resources is better spent on trunk/head.

Later, when you aim for completeness, the branches of course also have
to be updated, especially as almost all current GNOME releases are
made off gnome-2.xx branches. But that may not be what you want to
concentrate on right now. If you want completeness in a future GNOME
release, what you do in head/trunk right now is what matters.


Christian