Le samedi 18 avril 2009 à 18:32 +0000, F Wolff a écrit : > Op Sa, 2009-04-18 om 15:38 +0100 skryf Simos Xenitellis: > > ... > > > What I would suggest is to try to clone the repositories of the GNOME > > release, > > and keep those on your system. We now know the figures; > > the GNOME 2.26 Git repositories would take about 2.6GB on your disk. > > If you were to download these files in a compressed .tar.bz2, the file > > would be around 1.6GB. > > It would be quite straightforward to use a download manager and get a > > 1.6GB file. > > ... assuming a certain hard drive space and level of connectivity to be > available. > > It is actually not as big as I thought it would be, considering it > contains all branches of all projects. Git is really quite efficient. I > will however continue to download stuff directly from damned lies and > asking other people to commit on my behalf until damned lies can commit. > I am lucky that I probably have the bandwidth to be able to download 1.6 > GB over a few days/weeks, but I don't have hard drive space at the > moment :-) > > Translating GNOME is so much fun, I do it in my free time and I enjoy > it. One of the main reasons is because it is easy to do and the overhead > is minimal. As long as we continue to make it possible for people to > contribute as easily as it is now, I think we will continue to draw more > people (and I will continue to recommend it to people starting out with > localisation). > > A big thank you to everybody helping to make this the joy that it is > (and everybody committing for me :-)
Wow, Friedel, you can write such mail every day, if you want. Thanks, that is very encouraging (especially after spending lots of hours for a technical migration...). Peace be with you! Claude _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
