[sugar] Which to translate: Gulcose82 or Gulcose

[Korakurider]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:12 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Korakurider <korakurider at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
>> <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Korakurider <korakurider at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> That sounds good to me.
>>>>   More specifically,  Calculate-24 recently announced was built from trunk.
>>>>   It is sad to see translation in branch just skipped :-< (And I
>>>> can't commit to trunk - #8588)
>>>>   Another example is pippy;  it hasn't had even branch.
>>>>
>>>>   I am NOT calling them bad, I just think there is confusion here.
>>>>   If you say about intention to stick with trunk for specific
>>>> activity BEFORE you build release, translator could manage to keep up
>>>> with it.
>>>
>>> I expect some activity authors will want to branch and some will not.
>>    I can understand this.  But Then, please do not make separated
>> project on Pootle at first place when the author isn't thinking about
>> branching :-<    You could postpone branching on Pootle project until
>> it is actually needed.
>>
>> And please announce when translator should use trunk on Pootle for
>> specific Fulctose activitiy.
>> For example; if improvement to an activity targetted to 8.2.1 needs
>> string addition, which Pootle project to use for translation?
>>
>>>
>>> If we branched and then released from master then clearly we screwed.
>>> If you can provide a list of modules which are in this situation we
>>> will get them fixed up (one way or another).
>>   Assuming conflict has now resolved for Calculate, please think about Pippy.
>>
>>> For modules that doesn't have a sucrose-0.82 branch, I think pootle
>>> should just point to master for 0.82...
>>    As I wrote above, the fact would be clear to translators if there
>> is PO only Fulctose project on Pootle and not in Fulctose0.82.
>>
>>>
>>> Sayamindu, does that make sense to you?
>>>
>>> Marco
>>>
>>
>
> I think the best approach here would be to symlink the master
> directory to 0.82 directory for activities which do not have a 0.82
> branch yet. In that way,  what pootle will see as pippy-0.82 will be
> actually a branch to pippy-master.
>
> Do you think that covers our current problem ?
? I am not convinced;
   What does it make sense to have 0.82 on Pootle (while it might be
symlink to master) if author doesn't think of branch?

/Korakurider

> Thanks,
> Sayamindu
>
>
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