Hello,

I've got some good news and some bad news.

Good news
---------

First the good news: translate-toolkit and Pootle have been completely
migrated over to Subversion yesterday.  The CVS repository has been
locked down to prevent accidental commits.  You can browse the new
repository here: http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/translate/

A quick primer.

Checking out the trunk:
svn checkout
https://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/svnroot/translate/src/trunk
translate

Checking out a branch (you can find branches through the web interface):
svn checkout
https://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/svnroot/translate/src/branches/some-branch
translate-some-branch

Merging branches is a bit tricky, you'll probably want to read the
corresponding sections of the Subversion book.

`username` should be your standard SourceForge username.  If you just
want anonymous read-only access, leave 'username@' out.  Note that your
password is saved when committing, so you don't have to retype it every
time.  This behaviour can be disabled in Subversion's configuration.

Getting diffs, updating, committing works as usual:
svn diff; svn update; svn commit.

If anyone is having difficulties with Subversion, I'll be happy to help.

By the way, you might also want to tweak Subversion configuration so it
works better with Python projects.  In ~/.subversion/config, check
these:
- *.pyc should be included in global-ignores, which should be enabled
- enable-auto-props = yes
- Make sure you have this line in [auto-props]:
*.py = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Id


Bad news
--------

We tried but were unable to export the South African translations
completely to a different project.  The cvs2svn script that we used to
get a Subversion dump out of a CVS repository had a bug that prevented
the conversion (I submitted a bug report).  Yesterday in the late
evening I tried to work around the bug and succeeded to get a
Subversion dump.  That was quite a dumpfile, almost 1GB in size, 200MB
after gzipping (the original CVS repository was ~300MB).  I tried to
import that file into SourceForge, but the import failed.  The failure
could be due to my workaround in cvs2svn or simply because the
repository was too big.

I see several ways out of this:
- Assuming that the workaround was the culprit, wait until cvs2svn
developers provide a proper bugfix, then try the import again.
- Assuming that the size was the culprit, cut some fat off the
repository. The OO.org translations seem to be by far the largest in
size.  Maybe it would be acceptable to throw away some tags and
revision history?

-- 
Gintautas Miliauskas
http://gintasm.blogspot.com

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