2013/4/1 Yuri Chornoivan <[email protected]>
> Hi, > > Just some points below. > > Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:52:08 +0300 було написано atilla ontas < > [email protected]>: > > > Good night everyone. I was long gone previous year. Now back to work and >> begin to contribute. I have missed the Transifex issue. As i read from >> mailing list archives, the problem was our transifex installation and as i >> see from bug reports there are few to maintain mageia transifex. So, we >> abandoned Tx. But now there is no other web interface for i18n tasks. >> >> I' m Turkish coordinator of Transifex, Archlinux AUR translation projects >> and contributor to others as well. I do not see issues for them those we >> had with our tx, So, i want to ask; can't we use transifex.net instead of >> installing and trying to maintain our tx? Is it hard or impossible? >> > > As a Fedora Ukrainian team coordinator I have to say that there is no > problems with tx.net instance from the translator side. It is just > problematic for developers. They constantly forget to do tx pull/tx push in > Fedora which leads to untranslated apps. Moreover, to be able to run such > commands it is necessary to have the last versions of tx packages in > Mageia. So we need a maintainer. > > To sum up: > > 1. Transifex cannot commit directly into SVN and Pootle can. > 2. We have Friedel Wolff to help us with Pootle and no maintainer for tx > packages now. > 3. Developers have not said anything about if they can or want to add "tx > pull" into Makefiles. So we first need to hear from them and the Board to > switch to tx.net. > > > I know, Pootle is an alternative but if we try to install it under >> mageia.org domain and try to maintain it i think it would be hard. I >> mean, >> few people to maintain and lack of time may be problem. What do you think? >> Or i missed too much about this particular issue? >> > > So it is just a question on what packages will be maintained, Pootle or > Transifex. So it is again a question of maintainership. > > > Also, did Launchpad be considered for this? >> > > 1. Launchpad needs the whole project directly synced/hosted into Bazaar in > LP itself. > 2. Launchpad needs the POTs to be build during general make cycle (now > they are updated/build by specialized Perl scripts). > 3. Launchpad builds Debian-format packages only and Mageia is a Red > Hat-type distribution (RPM). > 4. Launchpad does not allow direct downloading/uploading translation. You > have to wait for several hours just to download/upload a translated file. > 4. Launchpad Rosetta module is unmaintained (see the constant "Timed out" > errors that appears everywhere). > > > I think, at least our Turkish team needs such an interface. I was sole >> Turkish translator for 4 years with Mandriva and it was a real pain. >> Without such a web interface most people do not want to use svn, git etc. >> > > Ok. If we can find a maintainer for Pootle/Transifex/Weblate/what-**so-ever > packages we can talk about web translation. And if we (as a translation > team) failed to do so, it is better to leave things as is and do not push > on the current maintainers. They are already too overloaded. > > Just my 2 cents. > > Best regards, > Yuri > Thank you very much Yuri, Yours is a good explanation. I hope we can find maintainers for Pootle or Transifex
