Hi, Carsten Schoenert <c.schoen...@t-online.de> wrote: > Hello Fabian, > > Am 24.12.20 um 13:25 schrieb Fabian Baumanis: > > Hi there, > > > > I'm translating the Debian website into German and I would like to > > request write access to the webwml repository. > > > > The current workflow is a bit of a pain because I'm working on the > > outdated translations, which means that I'm just editing 2-3 lines in > > the page source code. Then I have to send the MR to another member who > > has write access, to have the MR merged. > > why is that a pain? It's more the usual way in my eyes. > It's not that write access can not be given, but there is a lot of trust > needed to give contributors full write access. > > So why not start as every contribution is typically starting? In the old > days a patch set was needed to send to a list, this isn't needed as > creating MRs on Salsa is really easy and cheap. > If you can contribute at a high level we can grant write access to the > webwml repo later. > > Even previous Debian project leaders doing MR for updating the Debian > website. > > > We currently have 80-90 pages with outdated translations so this would > > create a big overhead and I don't want to disturb the other members in > > their work. If therer would be any bigger changes in a MR, I would > > request a review on our mailing list of course. > > I see no problem if you start your work within your own namespace and > create various MRs. The typical review can be done at any time.
I want to second Fabian's request for write access. Moreover, I have suggested him to write that mail to debian-www. He has already contributed some translation work for German website, and it would be a great benefit for German, if he would update all those outdated files. Regarding merge requests: for me the technique via MR might be sensible for some work, but I also see some contra points, as Fabian said. I think I can say, that I'm familiar with working with git commandline tools. But nevertheless I often have problems understanding how things work via the graphical Salsa interface. I might be easy, if you know how it works, or if you have someone explaining it to you site-by-site. But if you are forced to learn it completely by yourself via reading the docs and try-and-error, it's often a pain IMHO. Also, you can find countless merge requests rotting on Salsa, with noone taking action for them. That does not give a nice impression to new contributors or interested people IMO. This is just my opinion, not necessarily Fabian's. At the end, I agree with Fabian, that direct write access would ease his work (and the work of the whole team in summary) a lot. I'm sure, Fabian will accept the poliy to only commit changes to the ../German subdirectory, but no other subdirs. (In fact, that is exactly what he intends to do!) If it helps, I volunteer for reviewing his commits, to make sure they are ok. Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076