Martin is taking Pootle, but if you have time to help with it, I think it would be appreciated.
I think I'll start the work on Sunday. Martin, would you have time? On 07/21/2014 07:08 AM, Matthew Ciao wrote: > Hi folks, > > it looks like you're already in a good position in terms of help from > rgs and/or icarito so I don't think I would be very useful at the meeting. > > This said, if all goes bad please involve me in the Pootle mission as I > am more than keen to lend a hand! :) > > Best, > > Matthew > > On Jul 21, 2014 4:15 AM, "Bernie Innocenti" <ber...@codewiz.org > <mailto:ber...@codewiz.org>> wrote: > > +rgs, +icarito (both of which expressed interest in supporting Pootle) > > > On 07/20/2014 01:36 PM, Martin Abente wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > What about investing some minutes this week to talk about Pootle's > > status, what is missing and how can we get it back to life? > > > > I suggest this Wednesday 23 July, 13:00 UTC. > > It's a bit early for me, and definitely too early for rgs. > Can we do 15:00 UTC? > > > In case I miss the meeting, here's a full dump of my mind: > > - you, rgs and icarito already have root to newpootle.sugarlabs.org > <http://newpootle.sugarlabs.org> > > - full backups of the old pootle machine are on freedom, and all of you > have root access there too > > - Sysadmin documentation is in the usual place (the wiki). There are > several pages written by the previous Pootle maintainers: > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Service/translate > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Service/Pootle > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Service/Pootle2.5 > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Machine/pootle > > The documentation needs to be consolidated into a single page and > updated. *PLEASE*, don't neglect this step; it will save a lot of time > to future maintainers. > > - The newpootle machine is still running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I strongly > recommend upgrading it to 14.04 (trusty) before proceeding. It won't > take more than 1h of work and I can do this. > > - There's an outdated instance of Pootle already running on newpootle. > It was setup by a previous volunteer, but never transitioned into > production due to difficulties with the git integration (iirc, cjl might > have more on this). > > - I strongly recommend upgrading to the latest release of Pootle before > doing anything else. > > - Then, the database and data from the backups needs to be restored and > probably converted to the Pootle 2.5 format (good luck with Django db > migration!) > > - Finally, the part where all past maintainers seem to get stuck: make > the Pootle <-> git integration work. I don't know what the actual > problem is; pushing to git should be a basic feature of a translation > system and I'm surprised this can't be made to work out of the box. > > - When everything works (and please test it well, Pootle likes to crash > and burn under load), we can change the DNS to point the CNAME > translate.sugarlabs.org <http://translate.sugarlabs.org> to > newpootle. Follow the Service/nameserver > documentation page to do this, or I can do it in 2 minutes. > > -- > _ // Bernie Innocenti > \X/ http://codewiz.org > -- _ // Bernie Innocenti \X/ http://codewiz.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel