Re: Translations workflow

2011/5/19 Wolfgang Bornath <[email protected]>

> 2011/5/19 Jean-Philippe Braun <jpbraun-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>:
> > Le jeudi 19 mai 2011 à 13:19 +0200, F Wolff a écrit :
> >> Op Do, 2011-05-19 om 08:45 +0200 skryf Jean-Philippe Braun:
> >> > > 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.
> >>
> >> Pootle is designed to work along with direct contributions to version
> >> control, so it is not impossible. It is probably easier if there is just
> >> one way to submit, but then you are more likely to make people unhappy.
> >> Of course, I'm biased, since I'm a Pootle developer :-)
> >>
> >> Friedel
> >>
> >
> > I didn't want to say that it is impossible in general, but since v1.0,
> > Transifex is not designed to work with any VCS directly. There is some
> > tools to pull/push files from/to Transifex that's it. Then, it's up to
> > you to imagine svn or git integration... I'm sure it can be both ways
> > with lot of work
> >
> > If some of you have some better ideas I'll be happy to hear them
> >
> > Actually, I don't really understand why using Transifex instead of svn
> > directly is worse
>
> I understand the problem some people have. Until recently translating
> for i18n was a lonesome job, each translator worked for himself,
> checking out svn, translating, committing. Using any tool they wanted,
> bei it vi, kate, kbabel, etc. Transifex is not for such people or such
> a system..
>
> Transifex is made for collaboration of groups. Several translators of
> the same language are working together in Transifex, never touching
> svn. At the end of the workflow (translating, proofreading) one or
> more team leaders or admins or whatever will commit the complete work
> to svn.
>
> --
> wobo
>
Well, though I'm surely not against Transifex as it exposes translation more
to the world and is generally easier to master than to memorize SVN commands
(though there are some GUIs for that, too), I rather doubt it is more
"collaborative". IINM when translating online the file is locked, so no
other translator can work with it. Or is it really possible several
translators to work simultanously with the same file? (like e.g. PiratePad
or other EtherPad clones or even Google Docs)