Re: Using Git and separating translations into their own l10n-LL repository

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le lundi 19 janvier 2009 à 13:38 +0100, Matej Urban a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I'm really trying to understand the changes. The title sais:
> Using Git and separating translations into their own l10n-LL repository
> 
> The title implies that ALL and ONLY po files from ALL the languages UI
> and HELP will fall into "l10n-LL" repository, but that will not be the
> case, as I understand. I really don't know why this is so unpopular
> among developers.
> 
> I posted a bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554257 and
> also a reminder that I don't fill-in the changelog entries. I can not
> find those great "scripts" in the gnome archive, that will do all the
> work in my place, nor can I write one, so doing it step by step is the
> only way I know. It takes TOO much time, TOO much bandwidth and TOO
> much space to maintain the language. Putting/linking/sync all po files
> in one single dir solves many problems for coords like myself.
> 
> Please, guys, check again if there is a way to do that. Last
> coordinator dropped out of the translation game because this updating
> took too much of everything, especially his time.

The intended future workflow is the following :
- find and download po file on l10n.gnome.org
- translate the file locally
- upload the file on l10n.gnome.org
Nothing more.

We're very close to such a solution with the current damned-lies code. I
may event try to implement this workflow with current SVN infrastructure
if I find enough time.

Claude