[Localization] POT inclusion in Pootle workflow

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

Hi,

On Jan 16, 2008 7:21 AM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero <dirakx at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 16, 2008 2:08 AM, Alexander Todorov <atodorov at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> > > Hi Alexander,
> > >
> > > On Jan 15, 2008 10:24 PM, Alexander Todorov <atodorov at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >> I would like to know what's the workflow to include POT files in
> Pootle?
> > >> Currently there are some activities that host their POT files outside
> > >> Pootle. Is that due to using external source hosting or simply a matter
> > >> of adding the appropriate permissions/settings in Pootle.
> > >>
> > >> IMHO we should try and make the translators' environment as consistent
> > >> as possible.
> > >>
> > >
> > > I agree. At the moment it is slightly difficult to incorporate
> > > projects that use something other than the dev.laptop.org Git services
> > > for hosting the source code. I'm trying to come up with a mechanism
> > > that will make this easier - hopefully we should see something by the
> > > end of the week.
> >
> > Fedora Project's Transinfex is known to work with many code repositories
> > but changing from Poote to Transinfex will cause additional overhead I
> > guess.
> >
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> Transifex was  used at the beginning but  it was  decided  to  move all  to
> pootle taking in count that Fedora's trnasifex admins didn't have the time
> requiered to deal with OLPC's translation proyect, (Fedora is already to
> large to admin), so now all is focused in pootle were people like sayamindu,
> xavi and others can manage and put all  efforts and time to make things
> quicker.
> >

I would just like to add here that Pootle does have the capability to
talk to other version control systems (like SVN, CVS, bzr, etc). So if
required, in theory, we can support translation for projects that are
not hosted in dev.laptop.org Git.

Cheers,
Sayamindu

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Sayamindu Dasgupta
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