[sugar] [Localization] New localisation workflow: Overview and status

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On 11/1/07, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero <dirakx at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 10/31/07, Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/31/07, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > ** Current Status **
> > >
> > > Most of the scripts, etc are ready, and we are quite satisfied with the
> > > results of what we have seen so far using local repositories. The only
> > > major "blocker" issue that is left to be resolved is the question of GIT
> > > access to dev.laptop.org for the Pootle user. The most optimal solution
> > > for this is to use the newly released support for GIT submodules (where
> > > the po directory can be a separate submodule of a project). This
> > > isolates the PO directory from the rest of the project, minimising the
> > > chances of Pootle messing something other than translations :-).
> > >
> > > However, we would like to hear from developers on this - does having a
> > > new submodule under your project tree complicate your job ? Information
> > > on git submodules and how to use them is available at
> > > http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSubmoduleTutorial
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> From my point of view this is not really necessary, we can keep on doing our
> actual simlinks and script scheme, although is not an entirely integration
> to git (from the pootle point of view), from the d.l.o side is the  better
> solution, but anyway  im not saying that we shouldn't keep on trying to find
> a complete solution for this, but this solution  does not have to be so
> complex.
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> So i agree with marco that we have to write a tutorial about this, but the
> procedure is not difficult, taking in count that we have to handle the
> translation sync from the translate machine, and this is made by git pull
> from all the activities.

Yeah, my request for a "tutorial" was about the submodule part. It
felt too complex at first sight but I wanted to see exactly what we
was going to require for activity authors.

Anyway if we can avoid the step altogether I'll be happy :)

Marco