[Sugar-devel] Pootle SOS

[Bernie Innocenti]

On 07/20/2014 02:15 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> +rgs, +icarito (both of which expressed interest in supporting Pootle)
> 
> 
> On 07/20/2014 01:36 PM, Martin Abente wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> What about investing some minutes this week to talk about Pootle's
>> status, what is missing and how can we get it back to life?
>>
>> I suggest this Wednesday 23 July, 13:00 UTC.
> 
> It's a bit early for me, and definitely too early for rgs.
> Can we do 15:00 UTC?

Just noticed: I have a dentist on Wed 23, and it's also going to be a
long procedure :-(

How about Tue 22 or Thu 24, still 15:00 UTC?


> In case I miss the meeting, here's a full dump of my mind:
> 
>  - you, rgs and icarito already have root to newpootle.sugarlabs.org
> 
>  - full backups of the old pootle machine are on freedom, and all of you
> have root access there too
> 
>  - Sysadmin documentation is in the usual place (the wiki). There are
> several pages written by the previous Pootle maintainers:
> 
>   http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Service/translate
>   http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Service/Pootle
>   http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Service/Pootle2.5
>   http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Machine/pootle
> 
>  The documentation needs to be consolidated into a single page and
> updated. *PLEASE*, don't neglect this step; it will save a lot of time
> to future maintainers.
> 
>  - The newpootle machine is still running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I strongly
> recommend upgrading it to 14.04 (trusty) before proceeding. It won't
> take more than 1h of work and I can do this.
> 
>  - There's an outdated instance of Pootle already running on newpootle.
> It was setup by a previous volunteer, but never transitioned into
> production due to difficulties with the git integration (iirc, cjl might
> have more on this).
> 
>  - I strongly recommend upgrading to the latest release of Pootle before
> doing anything else.
> 
>  - Then, the database and data from the backups needs to be restored and
> probably converted to the Pootle 2.5 format (good luck with Django db
> migration!)
> 
>  - Finally, the part where all past maintainers seem to get stuck: make
> the Pootle <-> git integration work. I don't know what the actual
> problem is; pushing to git should be a basic feature of a translation
> system and I'm surprised this can't be made to work out of the box.
> 
>  - When everything works (and please test it well, Pootle likes to crash
> and burn under load), we can change the DNS to point the CNAME
> translate.sugarlabs.org to newpootle. Follow the Service/nameserver
> documentation page to do this, or I can do it in 2 minutes.
> 


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