Re: gnome-i18n Digest, Vol 138, Issue 17

["Michael (C0bb3r)" <translate cobber-linux org>]

I'd just like to reinforce some of what Arash has said. I find Gnome's 
translation tool difficult and even though I am the coordinator of en_AU 
I have never been able to commit anything I have done. This leaves 
people frustrated and they go onto other projects. MATE and XFCE, along 
with thousands of other FLOSS projects (such as Pidgin, Kodi, etc etc 
etc) use Transifex. I don't see a need for anyone to reinvent the wheel 
(like Mozilla is doing) when a simple and easy to use tool is available 
already.

Cheers.
Michael.

On 19/10/15 23:00, gnome-i18n-request gnome org wrote:
> Re: New DL option for committers
> Hi Claude,
>
> "Damned Lies" is a nice tool, but not really a full featured one. In
> comparison to other translations tools, I think a lot of effort is wasted
> on learning and working with repositories, reviewing, making the
> glossaries... Me, as a coordinator of a very small localization team on
> Gnome, find it very hard to find and keep people contributing to gnome
> localization, because of this matter: it's hard. I also often prefer people
> not to contribute at all, while it's very time consuming to review
> translation than translating them all by myself, and damned lies does not
> really help on this matter either.
>
> I just wanted to draw your attention to a tool Mozilla is working on,
> Pontoon [1][2]. They also found it hard to integrate their tools and
> repositories with Pootle, so they started Pontoon and they're migrating
> most of the old Pootle stuff into Pontoon. While it's written with Python
> and Django (which I'm not a fan of both), you might wanna take a look and
> see if gnome infrastructure can also use Pontoon.
>
> I can also offer my help on developing a new tool for Gnome, but I'm a
> Ruby/Rails/JS developer. If I knew Python I'd be contributing to "Damned
> Lies" already.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Arash
>
> [1]https://pontoon.mozilla.org/
> [2]https://github.com/mozilla/pontoon
>
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 1:54 AM, Claude<claude 2xlibre net>  wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd just like to draw your attention on an enhancement made today to
> > l10n.gnome.org when committing through the Web interface. If the commit
> > is in a non-master branch, you have now the possibility to check the "Sync
> > to master" checkbox which will cherry-pick th