On Dec 14, 2011, at 7:38 AM, Dwayne Bailey wrote: > > On 2011-12-13 23:49, Gavin McDonald wrote: >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Ross Gardler [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Wednesday, 14 December 2011 12:39 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: Pootle (was Re: About the Former Native Language projects) >>> >>> On 13 December 2011 14:27, Dwayne Bailey<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> ... >>> >>>> From the look of it Apache might be using this server for more then >>>> just OOo which I love even more. >>> The Subversion project has been using Pootle for some time. They >>> maintained their own instance in a VM. When AOO arrived the infrastructure >>> team decided it would make sense to provide a foundation wide server. >>> >>> It has only just gone online, but it other projects may pick it up over >> time. >>>> I'm not sure where to ask this but does Apache, or one of the >>>> corporate backers, want to engage with Translate to setup and maintain >>>> this server? >>> Here is the right place to ask that question. The AOO PPMC needs to figure >>> out, with infrastructure, how to configure and use this server. >>> Now we know you are around we know where to look for further help. >>> Thanks. >> We do not have any folks outside of the ASF on our servers. If any of the >> translate folks are committers then fine we can see what we can do there, >> though I do feel it has been configured with care and is appropriate for our >> needs. >> >> As a translate expert please share your thoughts on what you feel needs >> doing >> to help improve the Pootle Server. > There are other people on our team better qualified for that kind of review. > But it needs access to the server to evaluate. And no I doubt any of us are > commiters.
I'm sure there will be a way that you can contribute. >> >> In fact I Do have a question for you, is it possible to get the current OOo >> translations >> migrated over into this instance or would it be too much work ? (and without >> affecting the other projects or our configuration.) > Not sure I understand what you mean. If you mean pulled off the old server > and onto the new I don't know if that server even exists, we don't have > access to it anymore. > > One change I would recommend is to have PO files stored in SVN and make > creation of SDF files a build time event. > > My biggest concern as a localiser would be the sharing of translation > resources between LibO and AOO. I can only guess, please explain your concerns. Regards, Dave >> >> And another question I asked on IRC the other day but no -one seemed to >> know, >> can there be support for groups - would be much easier to integrate better >> with >> LDAP if there were support for groups. >> >> (Feel free to take that last question off list or ask me to file an issue as >> appropriate.) >> >> >> Thanks >> >> Gav... >> >>> Ross > > > -- > regards > Dwayne >
