Re: Translations workflow

Le jeudi 19 mai 2011 à 08:00 +0100, Zé a écrit :
> 2011/5/19 Jean-Philippe Braun <jpbraun-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>:
> > Le jeudi 19 mai 2011 à 01:01 +0100, Zé a écrit :
> >> 2011/5/17 Catalin Florin RUSSEN <cfrussen-/[email protected]>:
> >> > JP, I could not express it better!
> >> >> First I think that Transifex has to be the main source for translations
> >> >> because translations will be submited there
> >> > Yes, I agree.
> >> >> So basically what I propose is simple :
> >> >> translator -> Transifex -> svn -> package -> distrib
> >> > Just perfect!
> >> >> I said in some other mail, submitting new strings in svn and not in
> >> >> Transifex (and the opposite) will diverge the svn and Transifex and
> >> >> then, the merge of the two will be painful.
> >> > I'll even agree to delete commit rights on SVN for translators and that
> >> > everyone stick to Transifex. If someone likes to work offline, no problem!
> >> > He/she will download the file from Tx, translate it offline and then upload
> >> > it back on Tx! Then let's Tx do the commit job.
> >>
> >> I really dont like this option, i would like to be able to comit
> >> translations in svn and not be forced at all to use transifex, this
> >> way i think it still needed to sync transifex with svn, so that all
> >> changes commited in svn can be synced in transifex and vice-versa.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Technically it is not possible to work that way. Even if there is
> > regular sync beetween the svn and Transifex the loss of translations
> > risk will be high.
> >
> > Why don't you want to use Transifex ?
> Thats simply more work when it can be easily done locally.
> 
> When users are already overloaded with work, why create even more?
> I really dont get that thinking way...
> 

If you prefer to work with po file directly you can do it with transifex
too

Instead of svn co, svn ci it will be tx pull, tx push (cf
http://help.transifex.net/user-guide/client/index.html)


> >> > Now, I read something about an administration interface where the
> >> > coordinators can validate which translations are to be committed by the
> >> > daily script. This is very useful when you have to integrate new translators
> >> > and validate their skills. So, when we can expect this?
> >>
> >> I just hope you dont force users to just use transifex that simply not
> >> a good policy.
> >>
> >> > Best regards,
> >> > Florin Catalin RUSSEN
> >> > Mandriva Romanian Translation Team
> >> >
> >
> >
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