Re: GCompris needs a translation update

[Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny eglug org>]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 01:29:15PM +0200, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Matej Urban <matej urban gmail com> wrote:
> 
>     >
>     > Well, we don't care much, the master branch is unmaintained and
>     > hopefully nobody uses it.
>     >
> 
>     I understand this developers perspecitve. But I read your statement
>     as: "Well, we don't care much *about the quality of the translations*,
>     the master branch is unmaintained and *if somebody uses it, eeee, why
>     do we bother translating anyway?*.
>     I also read: "If translators want some order in the project, they
>     should get one of those boring paper-sorting jobs".
>     I also hear: "Anyway, be glad that we let you use it."
> 
>     Is really so hard to "rename" master to old_master and then "rename"
>     gcomvcyvycprxsyvcyvcydsfdaso to master?
> 
> 
> 
> I would say the concern is something like this,
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1526794/git-rename-remote-branch
> 
> Bruno mentioned that he does not oppose to the switch (I am rephrasing).
> 
> Therefore, assuming that indeed people would need to clone again the gcompris
> repository
> (who can verify this? Matej, Александър?), there should be an announcement
> for those with gcompris clones to clone again after a specific cutoff date.

I discussed this a while ago with Bruno, and IIRC the only practical
solution requires admin intervention because some git operations are
restricted on g.g.o.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer