On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 02:33 -0300, Leonardo Fontenelle wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 21:41 +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote:
> > > On 04/09/2006, at 9:12 PM, Dwayne Bailey wrote:
> > >
> > > >> On "People wise" lack of resources: does that mean sysadmins or team
> > > >> coordinators? We already have (some) team coordinators, so if we move
> > > >> to Pootle that part shouldn't be hard.
> > > >
> > > > Its the inbetween person.  We call him/her the project liaison.  The
> > > > person who updates the POT files, keeps up to date with what needs
> > > > to be
> > > > translated makes sure the completed translations are upstreamed.
> > >
> > > With the current interface, how much of this can a team-leader or
> > > project-leader do, without having to bother the admins?
> > >
> > > 1. Can we update POT files simply by uploading the new POT with the
> > > same filename?
> >
> > I haven't checked but I think if we give admin rights to the 'template'
> > language a person with admin rights could update the POT files.
> >
> > They still could not delete files and would have to ask us for that.
> > But they can create new ones.
> >
> > They should also be able to CVS up.
> >
> > Making them admin for all languages would also allow them to update
> > translations.
> >
> 
> GNOME has a fine site, http://l10n-status.gnome.org, which provides an
> easy way to download current PO files. It is synchronized with the CVS
> every twelve hours. It would be just great if somehow PO files in the
> Pootle server could be automatically and periodically updated from
> that GNOME web page.

Yes it would.  And I think Simos contributed a simple script to do that.
But it still does not solve the problem in that a human must be able and
willing to ensure that it keeps running.  Decide when and what needs to
branch etc.  We need humans in some form :)

-- 
Dwayne Bailey
Translate.org.za

+27-12-460-1095 (w)
+27-83-443-7114 (cell)


-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash
http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
_______________________________________________
Translate-pootle mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle

Reply via email to