[Localization] Offering help with Pootle setup and maintainance

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 15:11 -0300, Xavier Alvarez wrote:
> Syamindu and all,
> 
> We have already imported into pootle most of the stuff that we 
> define as Core & Bundled [1] into the Pootle installation [2] - 
> but the server is going to be moved (iow, don't bookmark it ;)
> 
> What we need now is to have language administrators. Takers?
> 

Hmm.. I'm not a native speaker for any of the initially targeted
languages, so I don't think I'll be of any help for this ;-)

> There are still some workflow issues to iron out (ie: pushing back 
> into dev.laptop.org) but we can work them out together.
> 

I tried to follow up on the effort Antonio Ognio has been putting wrt
GIT integration, and it seems that he tried to follow use symlinking to
work around pootle's expectation of the translation directory layout[1].
  
It looks like an alternative way to use the backport Antonio made for
the GIT support and modify Pootle itself so that instead of checking for
translations in the format (according to GNU conventions)
$podirectory/$project
it checks in 
$podirectory/$project/po

I'm not familiar with the internals of Pootle, but I did the following

1. Did a git clone git://dev.laptop.org/projects/read-activity
read_activity in my $podirectory (somehow Pootle does not like '-' in
the $projectdirectory)

2. Modified some stuff in Pootle/potree.py so that it checks for the
translations in $podirectory/$project/po

Then I added the read-activity to pootle as a project
    read_activity:
      fullname = "Read Activity"
      description = "Blah Blah"
      checkstyle = "standard"
      localfiletype = "po"

The thing seems to work. Does this seem sensible (I'm asking this since
I'm not very familiar with what has been done upto now).


Warm regards,
Sayamindu




> Bottom line: consider this mail as the pre-pre-announcement of 
> OLPC-Pootle being online :)
> 

Congrats :-)

Cheers,
Sayamindu


[1]
http://www.nabble.com/Help-integrating-Pootle-1.0.x-with-GIT-t4585437.html

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