[sugar] Which to translate: Gulcose82 or Gulcose

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

2008/9/23 Korakurider <korakurider at gmail.com>:
> 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?
>


To avoid confusion mainly. Also, asking people to translate project
glucose 8.2 instead of project glucose 8.2 + activities x,y,z becomes
a bit easier for me.
However, from next time, I definitely plan on bugging activity authors
more for branching :-)
Cheers,
Sayamindu

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Sayamindu Dasgupta
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