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[Ruediger Landmann]

On 11/14/2010 05:06 PM, Thomas Canniot wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a few question about all this:
> - why isn't publication not automated like it is for website ofr example?

We are working towards a greater level of automation, but this requires 
us to have a version of Publican available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
5 (since this is the OS on the web server), and we have dependency 
issues that have prevented this so far. You can track progress on this 
work here.[0] Once this is complete, translators should be able to 
publish their work with two commands on the command line: a "publican 
package" command to build an RPM package of the document and a "koji 
tag-pkg" command to tag the document for release on the website.

However, I doubt we will ever implement a system where automation will 
attempt to publish a translation as soon as completion reaches 100% -- 
the nature of XML is such that even when a translation is 100% complete, 
it might include tagging errors that break the XML structure and prevent 
a document from building at all. Furthermore, given the length and 
complexity of these documents, no document (in English or in 
translation) should ever go live to the public until it has been built 
and proofread, which means some kind of deliberate, manual process.

> - is there still "a bug in Publican when publishing books on a system
> where the locale is not set to American English (en-US)"

We believe the bug still exists, but the problem is poorly understood 
right now, because we on the Publican team haven't researched it 
properly.[1] Last week, Piotr posted to docs-list to report that typing 
"LANG=C" in your terminal before running the Publican commands seems to 
work around the problem without logging in under the en_US locale [2], 
which makes sense.

I'd love to hear from translators who can verify the bug and verify that 
the workaround works. There are some instructions in that first email I 
linked.[1]

Cheers
Ruediger



[0] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Automating_publishing
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-November/008367.html
[2] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/docs/2010-November/012916.html