On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 23:16 +1030, Clytie Siddall wrote:
> This thread is about supporting Decathlon projects still hosted on Pootle.
> 
> To make a start, I volunteered to do this for TuxPaint.
> 
> Thanks to Dawyne and Alaa for their comments. :)
> 
> On 15/03/2010, at 8:41 PM, Alaa Abd El Fattah wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:55:41 +0200
> > Dwayne Bailey <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Can we link to a project's repo, with auto-update of POTs and
> >>> manual commit of POs?
> >> 
> >> We can, but its probably easier for now that we don't.
> 
> Bummer. I thought we had that working earlier on?

It does work, but with something like tuxpaint the files are small so
lets keep it simple for now.

> Well, I've talked to Bill Kendrick (TuxPaint), and he's happy with keeping 
> TuxPaint on Pootle, and with me as liaison. I've already sent out a message 
> to tuxpaint-i18n, encouraging TuxPaint translators to register with Pootle 
> and have a look around.
> 
> I have commit access to the TuxPaint repo (CVS @ Sourceforge).
> 
> 1. What do I do with the current TuxPaint POTs?

Upload new ones

> 2. How do I update the current TuxPaint files on server?

You can update them from the admin page for the tuxpaint project.  You
have admin rights, right?

> 3. Will I be able to commit updated translations manually from Pootle (as I 
> do on other Pootles)?

Commit to version control?  Yes if we setup Pootle to be able to access
version control. You'll be able to upload translations onto Pootle when
needed.

> I'd like to get current files on the server ASAP.

If you struggle just pop into #pootle and we can give you a hand.

> 
> >> 
> >>> Also, do we have message functions yet? Can a project rep. contact
> >>> all the translators for a particular project? If we can't do this
> >>> via Pootle yet, could you please supply a list of contacts?
> >> 
> >> Nope we don't have an email all people thing yet.  We can get a list
> >> of emails, need to ask the other admins what they think.
> 
> As I've said before, language admins need access to a list of current 
> translators for that language. Otherwise, you don't know who's doing what! In 
> the new, shiny Pootle, you can now see usernames and how many strings etc. 
> they've done, but you don't know who they are, or how to get in contact with 
> them. Better communication means better results.
> 
> All this applies equally to a project admin. If I'm going to support the 
> TuxPaint project on Pootle, as I've promised I will, then I need the tools to 
> do the job.

Lets get the files up, then see what we can do, what's easy. what's
hard.

> >> 
> >>> As to the RSS feeds:
> >>> 
> >>> http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/notifications?s[]=rss
> >>> 
> >>> how does a project rep. access them?
> >> 
> >> Whoops, seems we can do language level feed. But don't seem to be able
> >> to do project level feeds.  I'm sure Alaa or others will be able to
> >> confirm.
> > 
> > yes at the moment we can't do project level feeds, or permissions, we
> > can't have project admins either :-( if you want that improved file a
> > bug report.
> 
> http://bugs.locamotion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1391
> 
> As I've said in the bug, I hope you have the time and resources to provide 
> these tools. I'm getting a bit concerned, at this point, that by volunteering 
> for this task I've promised the TuxPaint project and its translators support 
> via Pootle which I can't yet provide. :S

With you on our backs we'll get there sooner rather then later :)

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