Hi all, Could you please move this discussion to d-d-l and/or gnome-infrastructure? This mailing list is definitely not the place to discuss SCM in GNOME.
Thanks, --lucasr 2007/9/10, Olav Vitters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:29:35AM +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: > > 2007/9/8, Olav Vitters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 04:47:31PM +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: > > > > And this all is naturally from the developer/maintainer POV, as > > > > translators and documentors do not benefit from this as much. But as > > > > the general opinion seems to be, they shouldn't be forced to use SCM:s > > > > directly anyway. > > > > > > That is a theoretical discussion. Ideally GNOME has a D-SCM now and all > > > translators use a websystem that automatically translators. It doesn't > > > exist. > > > > Of course it is theoretical since there's no hope (nor sense) in > > switching over to anything before there are tools. As is pointed out, > > it would make things worse for non-developres. > > D-SCM systems exist. Such a translator tool does not. Especially as > someone has to write that tool, I do not like discussions that involve a > tool 'someone will write' (well, unless one of the damned-lies people > shows a clear proposal; including authentication bits). > > > But that doesn't mean the discussion needs to be punted indefinetly, > > and statements like "I don't want to learn a new SCM" are really not > > contributing to a discussion of the benefits a new tool would give to > > developers. At least I thought we were discussing exactly that. > > I disagree. It translates to easy of use. Why should I have to care how > a SCM works? A tool should either warn me strongly before doing > something wrong, or prevent it outright. It should have a --help that is > understandable. The man pages should have the most common usages, etc. > > I'm all for some D-SCM tool that provides benefits to people who > understand (D-)SCM in&out, but I need to use it as well. Perhaps git now > is good enough, no idea. But just discussing benefits of some tool > without discussing ease of use is ignoring part of the users. > > > > Although there is now some progress towards D-SCM, I don't see > > > such a websystem happening. Also am not sure if a websystem is the most > > > appropriate way. > > > > I'd much rather see something like SCM support for gtranslate which > > would give a comfortable tool to translate and send changes to the > > server. > > > > -- > Regards, > Olav > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list