[Sugar-devel] Pootle SOS

[Bernie Innocenti]

Martin is taking Pootle, but if you have time to help with it, I think
it would be appreciated.

I think I'll start the work on Sunday. Martin, would you have time?


On 07/21/2014 07:08 AM, Matthew Ciao wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> it looks like you're already in a good position in terms of help from
> rgs and/or icarito so I don't think I would be very useful at the meeting.
> 
> This said, if all goes bad please involve me in the Pootle mission as I
> am more than keen to lend a hand! :)
> 
> Best,
> 
> Matthew
> 
> On Jul 21, 2014 4:15 AM, "Bernie Innocenti" <bernie at codewiz.org
> <mailto:bernie at codewiz.org>> 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?
> 
> 
>     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
>     <http://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      - There's an outdated instance of Pootle already running on newpootle.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 <http://translate.sugarlabs.org> to
>     newpootle. Follow the Service/nameserver
>     documentation page to do this, or I can do it in 2 minutes.
> 
>     --
>      _ // Bernie Innocenti
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> 


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