On September 30, 2026 3:54:02 PM GMT+02:00, [email protected] wrote: > >Op 29-09-2026 om 18:58 schreef Alexander Sosedkin: >> Simon Josefsson's takeaway reads kinda bitter: >> >>> I reverted back to storing translations in git, > >That's not bitter -- that's plain realism: one cannot be sure that >the TP will still be there tomorrow. So the sensible thing to do >is to download the PO files now and then and store them in git. > > >> * could translationproject.org provide versioned downloads? > >No. Gnulib is an anomaly in that is does not make releases. >If it did that, or provided a gnulib-l10n-<date> tarball at >regular intervals, there would be less of problem. I'm not >going to make a special mechanism to version gnulib PO files >for every upload that a translator makes. > >What I can do is provide a backup tarball at the TP, every >month. A backup script runs for this purpose already, making >a backup for each team, so it's easy to add a separate line >for gnulib. I've created an example tarball at: > > https://translationproject.org/backups/2026-09/gnulib.tgz > >Instead of fetching the latest PO files from the TP, GnuTLS >would fetch the gnulib.tgz backup tarball of the preceding >month from the TP. Would that be useful?
Yes, very much yes. If translations would be retrievable in form of a stable snapshots, that'd solve my problem entirely, and one month seems like a reasonable interval to me. I just wanna note I'm after the gnutls ones, not the gnulib ones. Alex Sosedkin.
