[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Testing of Activities

[Walter Bender]

In the meantime, it may make sense to walk through all of the repos in
sugarlabs on GH and ensure that those with changes get updated version
numbers, new .xo and .gtar files, and we update ASLO and downloads. It
seems our only mechanism for doing this is manual at the moment. Tony, if
you publish the list of activities that are working properly from your
recent tests, I will begin the process of updating version numbers (and
ensuring that the correct repo path is in the activity.info bundle) and
making the new bundles.

-walter

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 1:30 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
> wrote:
> > I spent the last two plus days testing the 137 activities with
> repositories
> > in github/sugarlabs.
>
> Thank you for this effort, clearly additional follow up is required
> and I hope it occurs.
>
> > Localization also needs some attention. The setup.py enables a developer
> to
> > generate a master Pot file while building a bundle for release to ASLO.
> That
> > is probably the limit of the developer's responsibility. However,
> existing
> > activities over time have developed localization for many languages.
> Changes
> > to the messages will need new translations. Perhaps the developer can use
> > diff to find differences in the Pot and to eliminate un-needed changes
> and
> > test that new messages are passed through. This could enable prompt
> release
> > of a new version without waiting for the localization team to provide
> > translations for dozens of languages.
>
> For a very long time, instructions to developers have been "run the
> POT generation and never ever touch anything in the PO directory
> again, The L10n team will take care of the rest of it for you.".
> Unfortunately over the course of time, with changes in Pootle
> versions, migration of our repositories to GitHub and the decay of a
> "pootle-helpers" script set originally created by Sayamindu Dasgupta,
> the early tight and hands-free integration between Pootle and the
> repos has suffered and much of the process has returned to manual
> intervention.  The best path back to such a L10n nirvana is an
> upcoming release of Pootle (ver 2.8) that brings back repo integration
> through the implementation of the pootle-fs file system.
>
> At the present time if the messages of an activity are being changed,
> we are still dependent upon periodic refreshes of the POT file which
> can be accomplished with "setup.py genpot".  I manually upload that
> renewed template to Pootle and refresh the existing PO files from the
> template and call for completion of any new strings.  With the
> gracious help of James Cameron in generating refreshed POT files, this
> process has been initiated (and substantially completed) for the
> entire Fructose collection and I am systematically committing the
> refreshed PO files to the GitHub repos.(feel free to examine/monitor
> pull request activity by github user leonardcj).
>
> https://github.com/leonardcj?tab=overview&from=2017-01-01&
> to=2017-01-31&utf8=%E2%9C%93
>
> As for suggesting the reuse of strings common to already translated
> activities, this is clearly a "best i18n practice", that should be
> encouraged.
>
> I do envision sheparding us back to an enlightened era where
> developers largely can expect localizers to take care of things for
> them (primarily through a migration to the 2.8 version of pootle when
> finally released (or possibly 2.8.1 bug fix version if one follows
> traditional Microsoft upgrade best practices).  Ideally, Pootle would
> take care of POT regeneration on the backend, as we used to have it
> do.
>
> cjl
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