Re: comm-central future as a branch

On 10-10-2018 00:25, Axel Hecht wrote:
> Am 09.10.18 um 10:06 schrieb Magnus Melin:
>> I'd like feedback on the below plan for having Thunderbird in a single 
>> repository.
>> Let's have follow-ups go to dev-planning
>>
>> TL;DR version: planning to have current comm-central live as a branch 
>> instead of a separate repository.
> 
> I like the general idea.
> 
> But. I'll need the Thunderbird team to provide the patches necessary for 
> localization. That involves cross-channel/gecko-strings code generation, 
> l10n.mozilla.org, the automation behind it, and pontoon.

Yes, there are many systems that need adjustment (and/or verification), 
but it shouldn't be an enormous effort. As it's conceptually clean, the 
adjustments should not need to be hacks.

> Regarding comm-central revisions, cross-channel references them like in 
> https://hg.mozilla.org/l10n/gecko-strings/rev/290a9db4634e. No idea what 
> other parts of the web link to comm-central revisions. I guess bugzilla 
> commit comments?

Bugzilla comments appears to be the main place yes. The old links would 
continue to work as long as the comm-central repository is there. Third 
party permalinks not based on the original hg commits (like Searchfox) 
are more difficult.

  -Magnus