[sugar] Which to translate: Gulcose82 or Gulcose

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

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 ?
Thanks,
Sayamindu


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