On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Matej Urban <matej.ur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Gil, > > I will wait and see, but since I'm a translator/mantainer and since I > doubt I will be able to upload many files at once, the only difference > so far I see, is that I will replace keyboard keystrokes for mouse > clicks. There will be no changelog, which is an improvement :) > > Anyhow, in the end I will use whatever I'll need to do it, but keep > nagging about it. For some reason, I really doubt that single dir for > all po files, is a big programing deal. No obsolete clicks, no hassle, > just pure translation work.
For the part where you would want to upload several PO files in one go, it should be feasible to adapt damned-lies (as soon as single PO file uploads are enabled) to upload .tar.gz archives of several PO files. I created a bug report about this at "Allow to also commit archives of PO files (instead of single PO files)" http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568295 Simos > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Gil Forcada <gforc...@gnome.org> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Actually a lot has changed: >> >> - for advanced-translators the same workflow will be maintained. >> - for plain translators a web interface to commit languages will be >> provided. >> >> So I think you fall in the second option and thus you will need to have >> access to http://l10n.gnome.org to download updated po files (like you >> can do right know), track its status (like as of January you can do >> right now) and commit them in source repositories (like you will be able >> to do in a not-so-distant-future, Claude said it has a beta working >> version that does this, I'm right Claude?) >> >> So, all in all, your workflow will be a lot improved since you will only >> have to download and upload files from/to http://l10n.gnome.org :) >> >> Hope I haven't said any lie! >> >> Cheers, >> >> El dl 19 de 01 de 2009 a les 13:38 +0100, en/na Matej Urban va escriure: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm really trying to understand the changes. The title sais: >>> Using Git and separating translations into their own l10n-LL repository >>> >>> The title implies that ALL and ONLY po files from ALL the languages UI >>> and HELP will fall into "l10n-LL" repository, but that will not be the >>> case, as I understand. I really don't know why this is so unpopular >>> among developers. >>> >>> I posted a bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554257 and >>> also a reminder that I don't fill-in the changelog entries. I can not >>> find those great "scripts" in the gnome archive, that will do all the >>> work in my place, nor can I write one, so doing it step by step is the >>> only way I know. It takes TOO much time, TOO much bandwidth and TOO >>> much space to maintain the language. Putting/linking/sync all po files >>> in one single dir solves many problems for coords like myself. >>> >>> Please, guys, check again if there is a way to do that. Last >>> coordinator dropped out of the translation game because this updating >>> took too much of everything, especially his time. >>> >>> Matej >> -- >> gil forcada >> >> [ca] guifi.net - una xarxa lliure que no para de créixer >> [en] guifi.net - a non-stopping free network >> bloc: http://gil.badall.net >> >> > _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n