Andre Schnabel wrote: > Hi, > >> Von: Mathias Bauer <nospamfor...@gmx.de> > >> >> Why another CWS? Couldn't we use the same? And if we did it with >> Mercurial instead of svn it would be easy to handle: provide a >> repository on services.openoffice.org that everybody can clone and where >> changes could be pushed to. > > "Translators" are not developers. So the people who translate > normally have no idea how a source repository works, how they > would clone this ... many (if not most) translators don't even know > how their translations make their way into the final product > (it is not really important to translators, as long as the > translation *makes* the way into the builds). > I'd guess most of our developers even don't have an idea, what our > translation workflow looks like. > > The other problem with such a CWS would be, that ~100 people would > contribute to this cws. Although this might be technical possible, > I'd guess this is not "our normal way" to handle CWSes. > >> BTW: that's how I would recommend to work in future anyway. But YMMV. > > Yes - we should change the way we we work with translations ... but > I don't think, we would gain much, if translators would directly > contribute to a CWS.
Really? I don't think that working with an SCM is something for developers only. For the price of learning some very simple steps the speed of the process and the flexibility would be enhanced a lot. But of course that should be a decision of the translators. > PS: If you like and have time, I'm in Hamburg next Thursday. I'd be happy to > have a beer in the evening somewhere ;) I will try to make that possible. If we don't start too late, that should work. Regards, Mathoas -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "nospamfor...@gmx.de". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@l10n.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@l10n.openoffice.org
