Re: Git access for translators

[Sveinn í Felli <sv1 fellsnet is>]

Þann þri  4.sep 2018 19:15, skrifaði Daniel Mustieles García via gnome-i18n:
> Ok so just to clear things and not to start a flame-war, I just want to use
> my script to commit a bunch of translations, only that. If i have to commit
> 20 PO files with just one string modified throught DL I will simply ignore
> them because all the click-work needed to do it it's not worth for me.

+1
Upload of multiple files at once is crucial for language coordinators; 
regularly we have to introduce new/better terms/wordings *all over* the 
project. Not to mention cases like when someone replaces project-wide 
all triple points [...] with real ellipsis […], leaving hundreds of 
otherwise correct strings fuzzy - this has happened in other projects 
I've been working on.

> I only aim to work in translations and make my work as efficient as
> possible. Dont mind I have Git access or web access, but if I have to spend
> more time doing the commits manually than translating maybe we are doing
> something wrong. I agree we have always tried to reduce git access, but I
> think this case is more than justified to have it. And if you try the
> script to commit translations you will problably want to have git access to
> use it and not waste your time.
>
> Can you provide this features in DL today? API seems not be able to do
> that, so sorry for disagreeing again with you but currently DL is not
> usable for us to cover our needs.

Best would be to add this feature through DL; Transifex has it via the 
tx-client, Pootle allows uploading of multiple ZIP-ed files (beware of 
keeping the file structure intact), KDE has synchronization via SVN. 
Most of the web-translation interfaces (Transifex, Crowdin, Weblate, 
etc.) also have a more/less functional search/replace for whole 
projects, which may in some cases might be substitute for multiple-file 
commits.

Best regards,
Sveinn í Felli

> Regards
>
> 2018-09-04 20:42 GMT+02:00 Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org>:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:10 PM Daniel Mustieles García <
> > daniel mustieles gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > El mar., 4 sept. 2018 17:50, Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org>
> > > escribió:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 9:30 AM Daniel Mustieles García via gnome-i18n <
> > > > gnome-i18n gnome org> wrote:
> > > > Damned lies has an API and your script could use it. If the API is not
> > > > enough, we can extend it.
> > >
> > > Where is it documented?
> >
> > https://wiki.gnome.org/DamnedLies#XML_interfaces
> >
> > It doesn’t have any workflow actions exposed yet (so no commit), but that
> > can probably be added.
> >
> >
> > > Is it compatible with bash scripts?
> >
> > It is a Web API. From bash you can use e.g. curl to make the calls.
> >
> >
> > > I've been using this script for several years without any problem, also
> > > mi Git access, and never received any disclaim about it, but thanks if I
> > > fixed a wrong string in docs... if game rules have changed due to gitlab
> > > migration maybe someone should explain them clearly...
> >
> > Don’t act as if we never said anything about trying to reduce direct
> > repository access. We have always been trying to avoid giving access unless
> > really necessary, and done everything we could to reduce cases where it was
> > necessary.
> >
> > Rules have not changed, we just now have betters tools to enforce them.
> >
> >
> > > and then I could explain why this script is very useful for translators
> > > :-)
> >
> > I’m not claiming it is useless, but it is not the right way to do it.
> >
> > --
> > Alexandre Franke
> > GNOME Hacker
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