On 1 March 2013 21:00, Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]> wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: > >> Are we expecting any change to Pootle in the near term? If so, what and >> when? >> > > The changes look trivial but are not so trivial since Pootle accounts are > now linked to committer accounts. Currently anonymous users can suggest > translations, and users cannot register (they have to be committers). > > We need, for many good reasons (traceability, accountability...) that > anonymous suggestions are disabled and, at the same time, account creation > for non-committers is possible. > > I was concerned about losing content but apparently Jan reassured here and > on the l10n list that we are in a position to use/import strings from > Pootle at this stage. So it is a configuration/policy issue only.
The import might be partly manual or a "perl/python" volunteer writes a small script. It is quite simple, match source file, english text in the translated po file, with the new po file, and update (I can write the req. but I am not fluent in perl/python). Offering an import possibility was a demand, since I cannot (and will not) request a full stop on translation. > > I would not recommend waiting too long. We've shown that offline >> translation is quite reasonable.. Most of the 3.4.1 languages were >> done that way. >> > > It worked, but the current process is really demanding on the motivation > (or technical skills) of volunteers. Compare an answer like "Welcome! Next > week we will send you a link to a .tar.bz2 archive containing 240 PO files > that you should open individually, translate and send us back" to "Welcome! > Please register at https://translate.apache.org/ and start translating > now". > > Then, if you ask me, I would probably prefer the 240 PO files, but the > majority of new volunteers will be perfectly at home with Pootle. So I > believe we should fix it before any other mass-recruitment actions. > We need to wait for the release of pootle, last I checked it was still not official. Once 2.5 is released I will update translate-vm. Please consider the translate-vm, is currently NOT configured for a higher online volume (about 3 users and mysql is strugling). Infra has agreed that I do performance tuning after installing the new release. It should be possible to configure 2.5 to use both ldap and local db. The current version is either/or making it technically impossible to allow non-commiter login. Since pootle is seen as a asf-wide service, we need to get the acceptance from infra. Please remember genLang will reduce the number of files to 54 files (1 pr module, and for helpcontent2 1 pr sub directory). The extraction part of genLang is nearly ready for production (as you might have seen in the commits). rgds jan I. Regards, > Andrea. >
