On 9 Jul 2009, at 02:08, Ian Monroe wrote: > 2009/7/8 Andrius Štikonas <[email protected]>: >>> yeah.. it was mentioned and got lost in the noise I guess. or >>> maybe it was >>> that the po files are staying in svn for however long the >>> translators stay >>> there. >>> in any case, we have pre-commit hooks and they're important and the >>> gitorious >> >> >>> guys said they'll make it possible to add them. >> >> Git offers many benefits to translators too. Now ordinary >> translators do not >> have any commit access at all >> and they send their translations to maintainer and maintainer >> uploads large >> commits that are hard to review. >> >> With git it is possible to use workflow where every translator can >> commit to >> some git repository and later translation maintainer pushes >> translations >> into main repo. This workflow allows better review of translations by >> ordinary translators > > Yea I agree, that makes a lot of sense, but given that translators had > more issues with the cvs->svn transition (according to conventional > wisdom) I really like the idea of translators moving or not moving to > Git on their own schedule and not one imposed by the likes of us.
The translators have stated their complete non-desire to deal with switching to Git right now---our goal is to make this as faultless a transition as possible, and this includes not making the translators want to kill us. So we're not going to change their workflow underneath their feet :) leo --- Leo Franchi (650) 704 3680 Tufts University 2010 [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ Kde-scm-interest mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-scm-interest
