Re: [libreoffice-l10n] LO Pootle

Hi Sophie, all,

On 2010-12-30 at 15:18 +0300, Sophie Gautier wrote:

> > I download/update my language .po files using svn (with a very simple script)
> > and use Lokalize with a Translation Memory database, which is now 125M, for
> > translation and a glossary for words of .5 MB. Uploading is using svn commit.
> > Compared to using Pootle this is far more easy. Using svn or git for download
> > and upload is using less bandwith, because only the differences are
> > transported.
>
> Thank you very much for your feedback on this. It's great if we can 
> share others experience on this.
>
> The only thing I'm afraid of is the technical skills needed for the 
> steps to download or upload the files. Also what will be the process 
> under Windows, is it easy to commit on git or svn or whatever using 
> other OS than Linux (I remember at the very beginning of the OOo FR 
> site, I was under Windows 98 and comits to the cvs repository was not 
> exactly what I call fun ;-)

I've just found

  http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/version_control

that describes how to connect Pootle with a version control system.
From what I understand, this is built into Pootle.

Basically, it suggests what Freek says - having git as the authoritative
source, while providing all the strengths of Pootle as Andras explained
(xliff, downloading/uploading of tarballs, etc.)

An admin with the appropriate rights gets an [Update] button that
transparently updates the files from git (should there be changes in git
by the translators that commit their changes directly).  The page says
that there is also possible to trigger commit from the Pootle server,
though there are some troubles there; I'll look more.

If this works, to me it seems that this is be the best from all the
worlds:

- for Freek, or others who prefer to work with version control system
directly, the method known from Gnome and KDE would be available, ie.
work directly with the .po files in git

- for Martin, or others that prefer uploading tarballs somewhere, they
could decide whether to work directly with git (change of their
workflow), or to upload the .zips to Pootle, and let an admin do the git
updates

- for people that do not want, or are not used to work with a version
control system directly, or want to use xliff as the source, they could
work with Pootle only, and let the updates and commits on an admin

How does that sound?

Regards,
Kendy


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