On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Gil Forcada <[email protected]> wrote: > El dc 14 de 01 de 2009 a les 00:42 +0000, en/na Simos Xenitellis va > escriure: >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Gil Forcada <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi Simos, >> > >> > Great explanation, a couple of questions: >> > >> > - There would be any way to have in a single folder the code and >> > translations (aka, the way is right now)? There are some translators >> > (I'm counting in) that likes to have the code also. >> >> I am not sure which module you have in mind. > > Sorry, I wasn't really clear. I meant to keep like it is now with code > and translations together. > >> I would say that the idea is, if the translation files are expected to >> be managed by damned-lies/l10n.gnome.org, they should reside in the >> l10n-LL submodule. >> >> > - The same concern about maintainers forgetting to git pull(?) >> > translators is expanded, now they should git pull(?) every single git >> > repository (if 160 languages, 160 git pulls(?) before each release). >> >> The 'git submodule update' command, when you run in from the 'l10n' >> supermodule, >> pulls all the l10n-LL repositories automatically by default. >> There is an option to 'git submodule update' to pull individual >> language repositories as well. > > If I understand correctly the repository will be like: > l10n > - l10n-LL > -- evolution > --- po > ---- LL.po > -- eog > --- po > ---- LL.po > ... > > So if they update the whole l10n module (the top module) they will get > all translations from all modules not all translations from their > module.
Indeed, that is an issue. I did not find an easy way so that the 'l10n' tree can stay outside the repositories, and each module would have a symbolic link towards 'l10n'. That is, mousetweaks ├─ l10n (link to ../l10n) │... In addition to this, there is the issue with branching; all modules in a GNOME release should branch at the same time, and have a standard common branch name. Cheers, Simos > >> > Also, if the new DL will have commit functionality (maybe in half a >> > year, Claude ... :) and then *all* translations will be committed this >> > way, wouldn't be overkill to have all this system? >> > >> > I mean, if it's a temporal situation that, shouldn't be more productive >> > to instead of "wasting" time doing this git submodule thing to provide >> > resources and time to get commit functionality to DL that seems to be >> > more desired by translators (that's my guess no data actually, just >> > supposed so my arguments seems better :D). >> >> I would consider that separating code from localisation files would be >> a fundamental improvement rather than a temporary solution. >> The issue of manpower to make such changes is the main disadvantage. >> >> It would be easier to provide commit support to damned-lies when >> we have separated l10n-LL repositories. Damned-lies would 'auto'-commit >> only to designated repositories. >> >> I do not know the details of the SVN hooks and damned-lies. I think >> that if a commit/push to a project would call a hook that would invoke >> 'intltool-update -P' (create POT template file) and store it >> somewhere, then damned-lies would not need to clone locally any other >> GNOME modules. >> >> To add a few more advantages, >> 1. Can add access controls for translators to the l10n-LL repositories. >> 2. It allows translators to make changes across all translations (for >> example, change 'widget' in all my translations of GNOME). >> 3. Pootle could be adapted to perform easier GNOME translation marathons. >> 4. GTranslator could work as KBabel, it would clone the l10n-LL >> repository and would be able to show all translations in a huge sorted >> list. This way, similar translations can be easily identified. >> >> > >> > El dt 13 de 01 de 2009 a les 23:01 +0000, en/na Simos Xenitellis va >> > escriure: >> >> Hi All, >> >> >> >> This is a long-ish post regarding the migration to Git and >> >> what we can do to make l10n a bit better. >> >> >> >> Here I suggest to use the 'git submodule' support >> >> so that the translation material for each language >> >> reside in a single repository. >> >> Comments would be appreciated. >> >> If all is fine, I'll put this, with more details, to live.gnome.org. >> >> >> >> When splitting the l10n files from each module, there is a choice to >> >> either >> >> 1. create a companion repository for each module (for example, for >> >> mousetweaks, create 'mousetweaks-l10n') >> >> that will hold all localisation files for all languages, for this module. >> >> If we have 1000 modules, there would be 1000 additional companion l10n >> >> modules. >> >> 2. create a repository for each language, and this repository will >> >> contain all localisation files for all modules. >> >> If we have 1000 modules, there would be just 160 additional l10n >> >> repositories (it's one new repository per language). >> >> >> >> The right choice appears to be to create one repository per language. >> >> There are many reasons which can be discussed if deemed necessary. >> >> >> >> The rest of the e-mail shows how the separated repositories look like. >> >> I used as an example the mousetweaks and vinagre modules, for the el, >> >> es, fr and sv languages. >> >> Both have help/ and po/ subdirectories with l10n material. >> >> You can fork the generated (six) repositories from >> >> http://github.com/simos/ if you want to try them out. >> >> >> >> STRUCTURE (l10n-LL) >> >> A language repository name is of the form 'l10n-LL', where LL is the >> >> ISO 639 (-123) language code as usual. >> >> Inside 'l10n-LL' there are directories per module (with the module >> >> name), and further subdirectories 'po/' and 'help/' as necessary. >> >> For example, >> >> >> >> l10n-el >> >> ├─ mousetweaks >> >> │ ├─ help >> >> │ │ └─ el >> >> │ │ └─ el.po >> >> │ └─ po >> >> │ └─ el.po >> >> └─ vinagre >> >> ├─ help >> >> │ └─ el >> >> │ └─ el.po >> >> └─ po >> >> └─ el.po >> >> >> >> and >> >> >> >> l10n-es >> >> ├─ mousetweaks >> >> │ ├─ help >> >> │ │ └─ es >> >> │ │ ├─ es.po >> >> │ │ └─ figures >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-add-applet-to-panel-window.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-dwell-checkbox.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-dwell-click-type-applet.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-dwell-click-type-window.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-dwell-ctw-checkbox.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-dwell-delay-slider.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-dwell-gesture-mapping.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-dwell-mode-choice.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-dwell-motion-treshold.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-pointer-capture-context-menu.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-pointer-capture-locked.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-pointer-capture-preferences.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-ssc-checkbox.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-ssc-delay-slider.png >> >> │ │ └─ mouse-a11y-tab.png >> >> │ └─ po >> >> │ └─ es.po >> >> └─ vinagre >> >> ├─ help >> >> │ └─ es >> >> │ ├─ es.po >> >> │ └─ figures >> >> │ └─ vinagre-screenshot.png >> >> └─ po >> >> └─ es.po >> >> >> >> STRUCTURE ('l10n' supermodule) >> >> Per git parlance, we create a 'l10n' supermodule, and inside it we add >> >> each language repository as submodules. >> >> Thus, >> >> >> >> l10n >> >> ├─ README >> >> ├─ l10n-el/ >> >> ├─ l10n-es/ >> >> ├─ l10n-fr/ >> >> └─ l10n-sv/ >> >> >> >> The above graphic shows the first level of directories. >> >> When we add a new language, the l10n coordinators will add a new entry >> >> here to the new repository 'l10n-LL'. >> >> Each 'l10n-LL' entry is added with 'git submodule add', and points to >> >> a repository created earlier. >> >> >> >> STRUCTURE (module) >> >> Now, each module (such as mousetweaks and vinagre) need to simply add >> >> the 'l10n' supermodule. >> >> We remove from help/ and po/ all *.po and figures/ files. For our two >> >> modules, the po/ and help/ subdirectories would look like >> >> >> >> mousetweak: >> >> po >> >> ├─ LINGUAS >> >> ├─ POTFILES.in >> >> └─ POTFILES.skip >> >> help >> >> ├─ C >> >> │ ├─ figures >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-dwell-checkbox.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-dwell-click-type-applet.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-dwell-click-type-window.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-dwell-ctw-checkbox.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-dwell-delay-slider.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-dwell-gesture-mapping.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-dwell-mode-choice.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-dwell-motion-treshold.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-pointer-capture-context-menu.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-pointer-capture-locked.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-pointer-capture-preferences.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-ssc-checkbox.png >> >> │ │ ├─ mouse-a11y-ssc-delay-slider.png >> >> │ │ └─ mouse-a11y-tab.png >> >> │ ├─ legal.xml >> >> │ └─ mousetweaks.xml >> >> ├─ Makefile.am >> >> └─ mousetweaks.omf.in >> >> >> >> vinagre: >> >> po >> >> ├─ LINGUAS >> >> ├─ POTFILES.in >> >> └─ POTFILES.skip >> >> help >> >> ├─ C >> >> │ ├─ figures >> >> │ │ └─ vinagre-screenshot.png >> >> │ ├─ legal.xml >> >> │ └─ vinagre.xml >> >> ├─ Makefile.am >> >> └─ vinagre.omf.in >> >> >> >> (mental hint: the C/ folder should actually move to the 'l10n' >> >> supermodule, in 'l10n-C') >> >> We have removed the ChangeLog files as the commits are moved to the >> >> submodules. >> >> We have to figure out what to do LINGUAS. Is it possible to remove >> >> altogether? >> >> >> >> EXAMPLE >> >> This assumes you have the 'git' package ('git-core' if you use >> >> Debian/Ubuntu) installed. >> >> >> >> A. Cloning the repository of the module (when building from source, etc) >> >> $ git clone git://github.com/simos/mousetweaks.git >> >> Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/GIT/mousetweaks/.git/ >> >> remote: Counting objects: 89, done. >> >> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (88/88), done. >> >> remote: Total 89 (delta 9), reused 0 (delta 0) >> >> Receiving objects: 100% (89/89), 288.43 KiB | 96 KiB/s, done. >> >> Resolving deltas: 100% (9/9), done. >> >> $ cd mousetweaks >> >> $ git submodule init >> >> Submodule 'l10n' (git://github.com/simos/l10n.git) registered for path >> >> 'l10n' >> >> $ git submodule update >> >> Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/GIT/mousetweaks/l10n/.git/ >> >> remote: Counting objects: 6, done. >> >> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done. >> >> remote: Total 6 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) >> >> Receiving objects: 100% (6/6), done. >> >> Submodule path 'l10n': checked out >> >> 'd7f6178ccf9fc8f65c6c42ee9724a65649ad044b' >> >> $ cd l10n >> >> $ ls >> >> README >> >> $ git branch >> >> * (no branch) >> >> master >> >> $ git checkout master >> >> Previous HEAD position was d7f6178... Initial import. >> >> Switched to branch "master" >> >> $ ls >> >> l10n-el/ l10n-es/ l10n-fr/ l10n-sv/ README (the >> >> directories are still empty) >> >> $ git submodule init >> >> Submodule 'l10n-el' (git://github.com/simos/l10n-el.git) registered >> >> for path 'l10n-el' >> >> Submodule 'l10n-es' (git://github.com/simos/l10n-es.git) registered >> >> for path 'l10n-es' >> >> Submodule 'l10n-fr' (git://github.com/simos/l10n-fr.git) registered >> >> for path 'l10n-fr' >> >> Submodule 'l10n-sv' (git://github.com/simos/l10n-sv.git) registered >> >> for path 'l10n-sv' >> >> $ git submodule update >> >> Initialized empty Git repository in >> >> /tmp/GIT/t/mousetweaks/l10n/l10n-el/.git/ >> >> remote: Counting objects: 8, done. >> >> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done. >> >> Receiving objects: 100% (8/8), 15.41 KiB, done. >> >> remote: Total 8 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) >> >> Submodule path 'l10n-el': checked out >> >> '3fded9f61797faea2c3596d96af5de75b442146f' >> >> ... (this command brings in the files for all repositories) >> >> $ _ >> >> >> >> At this stage we managed to expand the repository and bring in all the >> >> files. >> >> Of course, the translation files are in different locations, so the >> >> building scripts >> >> and tools like intltool would need to be updated. >> >> >> >> B. Cloning an individual language repository (this is what translators >> >> would need to do). >> >> $ git clone git://github.com/simos/l10n-el.git >> >> Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/GIT/l10n-el/.git/ >> >> remote: Counting objects: 8, done. >> >> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done. >> >> remote: Total 8 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) >> >> Receiving objects: 100% (8/8), 15.41 KiB, done. >> >> $ _ >> >> >> >> Now, in /tmp/GIT/l10n-el/ I have all the translation files. I can edit >> >> vinagre/po/el.po and >> >> >> >> $ git commit -a -m "Updated Greek translation" >> >> [master]: created d19db87: "Updated Greek translation" >> >> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >> >> $ _ >> >> >> >> and finally push to the GNOME git server, >> >> >> >> $ git push >> >> Counting objects: 9, done. >> >> Delta compression using 2 threads. >> >> Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done. >> >> Writing objects: 100% (5/5), 440 bytes, done. >> >> Total 5 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0) >> >> To [email protected]:simos/l10n-el.git >> >> 3fded9f..b8975fc master -> master >> >> $ _ >> >> >> >> To top it up, here is a list of advantages >> >> 1. Developers can simply add the 'l10n' supermodule as a submodule to >> >> their projects. >> >> When they clone their repositories, the translation files are not >> >> downloaded by default. >> >> You need to run 'git submodule init' and then 'git submodule update', etc. >> >> Thus, it saves time and space. >> >> 2. Translators can keep a local offline version of their 'l10n-LL' >> >> repository. >> >> This is quite small in size. The translators that wish to, can simply grab >> >> the new versions of the PO files from l10n.gnome.org, thus would not >> >> need to clone all modules. >> >> 3. There is a process for translators who want to clone the modules >> >> and perform the manual steps. >> >> 4. Tools such as Pootle and Transifex will be able to work better >> >> because they would not demand to hold full repositories of all >> >> modules. >> >> >> >> And some disadvantages >> >> 1. It would require to make invasive changes across all modules. >> >> Building scripts and tools >> >> would need to adapt. >> >> 2. It gives too much freedom for errors to the l10n teams. Each l10n >> >> repository needs to conform to the right directory structure so that >> >> the files are picked up when we compile. >> >> >> >> Simos >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> gnome-i18n mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n >> > -- >> > 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 >> > >> > > -- > 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 [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
