[Localization] [ANNOUNCE] Pootle migration

[Seth Woodworth]

Pootle's been running on sqlite!?

0.o WOW

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >> Just a small heads-up - we are tentatively going to upgrade to Pootle
> >> 2.0 at the end of this week. I don't have a fixed date and time yet (I
> >> just uncovered a problem with Pootle's symlink handling which causes
> >> issues with our entire git<-->pootle workflow), however, I do expect a
> >> downtime of around 24 hours (since the metadata and indexing data
> >> associated with each PO file need to be refreshed as a part of the
> >> migration process).
> >> I will keep this list posted on how things go
> >> Thank you,
> >> Sayamindu
> >>
> >
> > Sayamindu, thanks for all your work on keeping the SugarLabs / OLPC
> > localization infrastructure current.
> >
> > Everyone should be aware that the Pootle 2.0 offers a substantially
> > different look-and-feel on the Home page to the Pootle ver 1.x servers we
> > have been using to date.  To get a sense of what the Pootle 2.0 interface
> > will look like, you can look at the Pootle server where Pootle itself is
> > localized.
> >
> > http://pootle.locamotion.org/
> >
> > Those of you who may have been following along on Pootle users list will
> > know that Pootle 2.0 is truly a major revision of this tool.  It still
> uses
> > the Translate Toolkit, but the web-serving elements have been completely
> > re-based on Django.  While the actual string translation interface is
> > prettier, it is still fairly familiar looking, so there should not be
> much
> > of a re-learning curve for localizers.  The re-basing on Django is said
> to
> > improve the ability to perform administrative tasks via the
> web-interface,
> > including better account and password management. which would be a win
> for
> > both admins and users.  I'm looking forward to working with the new
> version.
> >
>
> Ah yes - among other things this will _finally_ let users reset their
> password if they forget :-)
>
> Pootle 2.0 should be _much_ _much_ better than what we currently have
> now, from both a UI perspective, as well as performance-wise. We will
> be switching to MySQL from sqlite as the backend store for user data,
> metadata of PO files, etc. This, plus the use of memcached will help
> us a lot in terms of scaling up as we progress (we currently have
> ~1400 users registered, and serve around ~6300 PO files, which is
> itself a pretty large number)
>
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu
>
>
>
> --
> Sayamindu Dasgupta
> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
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