Re: Hello / Transifex !

2011/2/15 Jean-Philippe Braun <jpbraun-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>:
> Hello,
>
> It seems that you can do this with the transifex client : see
> http://help.transifex.net/user-guide/client/client-0.4.html
>
> It allows you to work on po files locally (online or offline) and then
> push them back to the transifex server

As we found out during tests and discussed at Fosdem the current
transifex has problems to work together with svn. Here some excerpts
from an irc meeting last week:

18:38:05 <Jehane> we have said that transifex can not commit in svn in
the way we want to work
18:38:51 <misc> yup
18:39:08 <Jehane> 'cause we are planning to have proofread of the
string before commit
18:39:26 <misc> so the idea is to use transifex as a staging area
18:39:44 <Jehane> and it's not possible to have a "to proofread"
status in transifex (as far as I know)
18:40:03 <misc> let's say that a developper create a shiny new
software that display duck
18:40:23 <misc> so he create the software, tx fetch the .po
18:40:42 <TeaAge> what about using transifex for translation and after
string freeze the commiiter have to push the .po to svn manually
18:40:44 <TeaAge> ?
18:40:51 <misc> TeaAge: that's what we proposed, yes
18:41:38 <misc> so translators send their work in progress on transifex
18:42:05 <misc> once the .po is ready ie have been proofread, either
someone from the team commit the .po ( using tx-client )
18:42:16 <misc> or the developpers fetch it ( usig tx-client again )
...
18:43:53 <misc> Jehane: tx do not use svn
18:44:11 <misc> tx store the .po in a postgresql databse
18:44:31 <misc> ( or anything supported by the django framework, ie
mysql/sqlite/oracle/pgsql )
18:44:55 <misc> the previous version was using svn to store
everything, but it was inflexible, IIRC
18:45:38 <Jehane> ok; so how tx is updating .po files when they are
updated in the source repository ? (news strings, etc)
18:45:49 <misc> Jehane: it depends
18:46:25 <misc> either it can fetch them using tx-client, or people
can update by hand ( ie upload using the web )
.....
<misc> #info tx do not preserve comment and history
Explanation:
<Jerzy> each pot files stars with comments, like: some descrpitive
title, translators and so on. It is generic.
18:52:50 <Jerzy> after editing some entries are added by translators
(their names, email, year)
18:53:31 <Jerzy> tx reverts all comments to its generic form
18:53:48 <Jerzy> from pot file
18:54:04 <misc> mhh, it doesn't simply add the information as given by
the date and username ?
18:54:06 <Jerzy> history of translators is lost

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wobo