[Sugar-devel] Pootle SOS

[Martin Abente]

I am OK with Tue 22 at 15:00 UTC.



On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
wrote:

> 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  - There's an outdated instance of Pootle already running on newpootle.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.
> >
>
>
> --
>  _ // Bernie Innocenti
>  \X/  http://codewiz.org
>
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