[PATCH] use Transifex for translations, remove po/*.po

[David Cantrell]

Patches are here:
http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/anaconda/transifex/master/

I recommend reading the transifex.txt file as well, which will be added to
the git repo as docs/transifex.txt.

Everyone will need a transifex.net account if you intend on making
releases.

I've done several test releases locally and everything works, though tx
pull is incredibly slow for me (I'm on a Clear wimax connection).  There
may also be some more fixups to Makefile.am to come later, but the basic
workflow is there.

I am not a tx expert, but I may be able to answer basic questions if you
have them.

I'll wait for an ack or two before I push these to master.

[Ales Kozumplik]

On 03/31/2011 11:16 PM, David Cantrell wrote:
> Patches are here:
> http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/anaconda/transifex/master/
>
> I recommend reading the transifex.txt file as well, which will be added to
> the git repo as docs/transifex.txt.
>
> Everyone will need a transifex.net account if you intend on making
> releases.
>
> I've done several test releases locally and everything works, though tx
> pull is incredibly slow for me (I'm on a Clear wimax connection).  There
> may also be some more fixups to Makefile.am to come later, but the basic
> workflow is there.
>
> I am not a tx expert, but I may be able to answer basic questions if you
> have them.
>
> I'll wait for an ack or two before I push these to master.

It looks okay, the only thing that bugs me is prolonging the build. You 
mention in the text file that 'tx pull' was only added to 'make bumpver' 
but in this patch:
http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/anaconda/transifex/master/0005-Update-Makef...

is is also added to 'make scratch', which would delay doing scratch 
builds IIUC.

Ales

[Chris Lumens]

> It looks okay, the only thing that bugs me is prolonging the build.
> You mention in the text file that 'tx pull' was only added to 'make
> bumpver' but in this patch:
> http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/anaconda/transifex/master/0005-Update-Makef...
>
> is is also added to 'make scratch', which would delay doing scratch
> builds IIUC.

In order to do anything useful with the output of "make scratch" (like,
feed it into rpmbuild and then onto pungi) it's helpful to have all the
.po files there too.

- Chris

[Chris Lumens]

> Patches are here:
> http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/anaconda/transifex/master/
>
> I recommend reading the transifex.txt file as well, which will be added to
> the git repo as docs/transifex.txt.

I'm okay with the potential slowness of the tx operations.  Releases are
fairly rare events and the savings of not having an entire group of
people outside the team with commit access is a big win as far as I'm
concerned.  Speaking of which, we'll need to remove transifex from the
gitanaconda group.

Under the old system, we were able to check that translations were valid
before building via the checkbot test.  That's moved into autoqa now.
Will we have a similar capability under the new transifex system?  Do
you have to have an account to "tx pull"?

Finally, what's the workflow going to be like for the release branches?
Do we want to flood them with fXX-alpha-branch, fXX-beta-branch, and so
on?  Or do those continue to pull from the main fXX-branch?

- Chris

[Brian C. Lane]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:16:32AM -1000, David Cantrell wrote:
> Patches are here:
> http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/anaconda/transifex/master/
>
> I recommend reading the transifex.txt file as well, which will be added to
> the git repo as docs/transifex.txt.
>
> Everyone will need a transifex.net account if you intend on making
> releases.
>
> I've done several test releases locally and everything works, though tx
> pull is incredibly slow for me (I'm on a Clear wimax connection).  There
> may also be some more fixups to Makefile.am to come later, but the basic
> workflow is there.
>
> I am not a tx expert, but I may be able to answer basic questions if you
> have them.
>
> I'll wait for an ack or two before I push these to master.

The patches look good to me.

[David Cantrell]

Ales Kozumplik  wrote:
> On 03/31/2011 11:16 PM, David Cantrell wrote:
> > Patches are here:
> > http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/anaconda/transifex/master/
> >
> > I recommend reading the transifex.txt file as well, which will be added to
> > the git repo as docs/transifex.txt.
> >
> > Everyone will need a transifex.net account if you intend on making
> > releases.
> >
> > I've done several test releases locally and everything works, though tx
> > pull is incredibly slow for me (I'm on a Clear wimax connection).  There
> > may also be some more fixups to Makefile.am to come later, but the basic
> > workflow is there.
> >
> > I am not a tx expert, but I may be able to answer basic questions if you
> > have them.
> >
> > I'll wait for an ack or two before I push these to master.
>
> It looks okay, the only thing that bugs me is prolonging the build. You 
> mention in the text file that 'tx pull' was only added to 'make bumpver' 
> but in this patch:
> http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/anaconda/transifex/master/0005-Update-Makef...
>
> is is also added to 'make scratch', which would delay doing scratch 
> builds IIUC.

Right, I need to update transifex.txt as well.  Chris pointed out the make
scratch limitation to me last night, so I updated the patch you mentioned.

You will also notice that the I also pass --disable-overwrite to tx pull,
which skips over translation files you already have.  It runs slightly
faster after the initial pull, so it's sort of like a cache.