Re: Transifex projects

Jean-Philippe Braun <jpbraun-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Mon, 09 May 2011 19:31:44 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.cooker.internationalization
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le lundi 09 mai 2011 à 20:10 +0300, Marek Laane a écrit :
> 
> 
> 2011/5/9 Diego Bello <[email protected]>
>         On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Jean-Philippe Braun
>         <jpbraun-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
>         > Hello all,
>         >
>         > As you may have seen, most of the projects are imported in
>         Transifex.
>         >
>         > There is still some projects that can't be imported due to
>         PO errors :
>         > - control-center
>         > - drakoo
>         > - initscripts
>         > - rpmdrake
>         > - transfugdrake
>         > - urpmi
>         >
>         > So for projects that are in Transifex you can use Transifex.
>         If you have
>         > made some changes in the svn lately, make sure that your
>         changes are in
>         > Transifex. Please avoid using the svn directly for this
>         projects as your
>         > changes may be overwritten on the next Transifex pull.
>         >
>         
>         Does that mean that you will be getting po files from
>         transifex and
>         then sending them to the svn repository?
>         

Actually I think it is the easiest path to work with, but we can talk
about it

>         
>         --
>         Diego Bello Carreño
> 
> Yeah, I'd rather to see SVN remains primary and Transifex would be
> like public mirror, i.e. if somebody makes change in SVN it does end
> in Transifex - and commiters of translation teams have sunchronize
> Transifex with SVN (besides, it allows them to maintain translation
> history saved in header, the same which Transifex just eliminates,
> copying it to the file they commit in SVN).

How will you manage merges if someone commit some string manually in the
svn, and on the other side someone add some translation in the same po
in Transifex ?

Allowing changes both sides sound quite tricky to me, but maybe I missed
something