On Ma, 2008-07-14 at 11:18 -0400, Suresh Chandrasekharan wrote: > Hi All, > > (Resending the mail as the original one with a screenshort was held > due to size restrictions) > > I have posted a patch for configuring the path to Project po/xliff > directories from the > pootle admin page. > > See > http://bugs.locamotion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452 > > The patch essentially give the admin the ability to configure the > already existing project > l10n directory from the admin/projects.html page
We had some discussion on IRC about this, and some of my concerned were also raise by others here. I think the security risks are a problem, but also think that this could be a performance problem. Pootle has to detect the layout structure of the project directory, and any misconfiguration could cause lots of unnecessary work. If the administrator gets the directory wrong, Pootle also won't be able to give much help either. This made me realise, that somebody needs to know the server filesystem really well in order to fill in that field. It might even be slightly easier on the command line, since things like path completion will actually make it easier to confirm that the correct files are linked to. But this made me think of what we might really want to be doing. Isn't the issue perhaps that we want to make it easy for people to check out a project and use the translation files? Wouldn't it be great if we could just check out a project from the version control system without anybody needing to go onto the server in the first place? There might be some nice opportunity with collaboration/reuse from the Transifex project, since this is some of what they do. Through the web front end, you can specify the type of the repository, and give the address from which to do the checkout. Suresh, would this solve what you are trying to address? This way we might be able to avoid direct server access entirely. I'd like to hear what people think. Friedel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Translate-pootle mailing list Translate-pootle@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle
