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

[Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Matej Urban <matej urban gmail com> wrote:
> Thanks, Gil,
>
> I will wait and see, but since I'm a translator/mantainer and since I
> doubt I will be able to upload many files at once, the only difference
> so far I see, is that I will replace keyboard keystrokes for mouse
> clicks. There will be no changelog, which is an improvement :)
>
> Anyhow, in the end I will use whatever I'll need to do it, but keep
> nagging about it. For some reason, I really doubt that single dir for
> all po files, is a big programing deal. No obsolete clicks, no hassle,
> just pure translation work.

For the part where you would want to upload several PO files in one
go, it should be feasible to adapt damned-lies (as soon as single PO
file uploads are enabled) to upload .tar.gz archives of several PO
files.

I created a bug report about this at
"Allow to also commit archives of PO files (instead of single PO files)"
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568295

Simos

>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Gil Forcada <gforcada gnome org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Actually a lot has changed:
>>
>> - for advanced-translators the same workflow will be maintained.
>> - for plain translators a web interface to commit languages will be
>> provided.
>>
>> So I think you fall in the second option and thus you will need to have
>> access to http://l10n.gnome.org to download updated po files (like you
>> can do right know), track its status (like as of January you can do
>> right now) and commit them in source repositories (like you will be able
>> to do in a not-so-distant-future, Claude said it has a beta working
>> version that does this, I'm right Claude?)
>>
>> So, all in all, your workflow will be a lot improved since you will only
>> have to download and upload files from/to http://l10n.gnome.org :)
>>
>> Hope I haven't said any lie!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> El dl 19 de 01 de 2009 a les 13:38 +0100, en/na Matej Urban va escriure:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Matej
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