Hello Alexandre 2014-09-12 0:15 GMT+02:00 Alexandre Franke <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Ask Hjorth Larsen <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hello translators and other wise people > > Hey Ask! > >> I recently became coordinator of the Danish translation team. I am >> now using damned lies to commit some translations. It results in a >> bit more clicking than strictly necessary. > > That's because you're doing it wrong. ;-)
Right :). Well... > >> Basically we use a mailing list to facilitate the proofreading >> process, and our translators eventually send the finished files to our >> mailing list for committing. What I do then is to go to damned lies, >> remove their reservation, upload the new file, claim that it's ready >> to be committed, and then I commit it. This does not seem to fit 100% >> the way the system was thought out. Is it an acceptable way to do >> things? It is a lot of clicking to circumvent things that are >> obviously meant to be there. > > Acceptable, sure. Best choice? I don't think so. > > While a mailing list can be an okay tool for the job, Damned lies > really shines in that context and was designed for that workflow. It's > way better as it allows you to track the exact state of modules. You > can see what's been translated and not reviewed yet, what's reviewed > and needs to be pushed to the repos, or what is being left out by > translators. You can also use the commenting system to have a > discussion and I think this is better than a thread on a mailing list > as it keeps the relevant messages grouped together in one place on the > module page. > > The fact that you can diff between the submitted files and the repos, > or the automatic merging/updating of files when new strings appear in > the module, are also killer features that you won't find in a mailing > list centered workflow. > > I may be forgetting other advantages to using Damned lies, but I hope > I've made my point with what I already said. > >> As an alternative I could use git directly, but I don't have a key >> registered for that. > > Meh. You can do it if you decide to keep using the mailing list, but I > don't think it's a good idea. > >> What do you generally do and think? > > Of course each team is free to work the way they want, but I strongly > advise you to use Damned lies for the whole process. It will make your > life way easier, believe me. :-) > > -- > Alexandre Franke We translate a lot of different projects through the mailinglist, many of which are not on damned lies. I guess I can ask the others how they like to do things. But since we (ir)regularly get po-files from translationproject.org, Launchpad, KDE, transifex and GNOME, it's a bit "out of the way" for us to make exceptions for GNOME. I do agree with you that damned lies is very powerful though. We'll see... Thank you again. Best regards Ask _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
