Re: Transifex instance for GNOME

[Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny eglug org>]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:26:40AM +0200, Kenneth Nielsen wrote:
> 
> WOW easy does it. It sounds a bit like we have already made the
> decision. This should be discussed thoroughly before we decide
> anything or ask people to do work on it.
> 
> While I can certainly support the idea of of-loading work from Claude
> and others, we need to carefully consider the functionality, because
> right now we have something that works for almost all that we want to
> do, and we do not want to go backwards on that account.
> 
> Claude writes that while functionality may differ, that it might be ok
> as long as the total functionality is high. I only partly agree with
> that. I think there is some functionality that is _essential_, and if
> that can not be implementer then we should not move.
> 
> The functionality that I am talking about is simple though and pertain
> to the fact that we work a lot more with sets that with individual
> packages. We have to be able to have overviews of sets of modules[1],
> (and it would also be nice to have overviews of the overview[2]),
> including translations status in the same screen, the same way we have
> today. This is so essential to the way we work that we, in my opinion,
> cannot do without.

I was about to say some thing along these lines, but you summarised it
better than what I would have done. I just want to added that every time
I use Transifex I find its UI very confusing and things that can be
simply achieved with damned-lies are either impossible or done in a very
convoluted way. I fail to say what features Transifex offers that we
need; we neither need the complex multi-project multi-team
multi-workflow setup nor the near useless online translation tool (if we
ever need one, then IMHO only Pootle is worthy consideration currently).

Regards,
 Khaled

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