Tx duplicate teams removal

[Misha Shnurapet]

Hi!

The docs translation period starts in two months, it would be nice for the l10n teams with
duplicate language resources on Transifex to have their resources justified.

> From what requires action, the duplicate resources named as regional
> codes (like ru_RU or es_ES) hold our previous work. While the resources named as language
> identifiers (like ru or es) are out of sync or contain empty translations. It means that
> the project translators would lose progress if the project maintainers kill the duplicates
> now. The progressed modules need to be merged in the right place, where these would be
> available to the teams members afterwards. This is to be done by the l10n coordinators.
There's also a deadline to be set so we don't make the cleanup an endless process.
August 15th, 2011, seems to be enough, in case someone's on vacation. That's 2
weeks before the docs translation period starts and about 1.5 month from now. Then we may
ask the project maintainers to run a script to remove all those language resources.

If the Transifex stats [2] don't lie, the following teams are to be REMOVED:
  as_IN
  bg_BG
  bn_IN
  bs_BA
  ca_ES
  cz_CZ
  da_DK
  de_DE
  el_GR
  fa_IR
  fi_FI
  fr_FR
  gu_IN
  he_IL
  hi_IN
  hr_HR
  hu_HU
  id_ID
  is_IS
  it_IT
  jp_JP
  kn_IN
  ko_KR
  lt_LT
  lv_LV
  ml_IN
  ms_MY
  nb_NO
  nl_NL
  or_IN
  pa_IN
  pl_PL
  ru_RU
  sr_RS
  sr_RS@latin
  sk_SK
  sv_SE
  ta_IN
  te_IN
  uk_UA
  vi_VN

The following team is to be LEFT INTACT:
  zh_CN (as opposed to zh_TW and zh_HK)

The merging task can be accomplished by using the Transifex-client tool available in
Fedora repository. You will need the language remapping capability introduced in version
0.5.2, which is currently in the testing repo. To use now, run:
su -c "yum install transifex-client --enablerepo=*testing"
or update using the testing repo:
su -c "yum update transifex-client --enablerepo=*testing"

Please give the package transifex-client-0.5.2-1.fc15.noarch [1] good karma so it would
land in the stable repo soon.

The procedure has been summarized before [3], there's also a complete manual to the
tool [4]. It took me less time because I only downloaded one language I wanted. For
instance, to update the Virtualization Guide I did:

1. configure the tool to use the chosen resource:
  a. create a folder, say, "transifex" in the home dir and cd into it
  b. [misha@pc transifex] $ tx init
  c. [misha@pc transifex] $ tx set --auto-remote
https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/fedora-virtualization-guide/

2. pull the "ru_RU" translation modules:
  a. [misha@pc transifex] $ tx pull -l ru_RU

3. use language remapping to push the modules as "ru":
  a. remap the language by adding the line "lang_map = ru:ru_RU" to the main
section of ~/transifex/.tx/config [5]
  b. [misha@pc transifex] $ tx push --translations -l ru

4. delete the local files

You may be able to do the whole docs collection at once using
$ tx set --auto-remote https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/fedora/r/fedora-15-docs/
as soon as the corresponding ticket [6] is closed.

[1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/transifex
[2] https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/fedora/r/fedora-15-docs/
[3] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/docs/2011-June/013504.html
[4]
http://help.transifex.net/user-guide/client/devel.html#customizing-the-la...
[5] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/docs/2011-June/013465.html
[6] http://code.indifex.com/transifex-client/issue/17/broken-auto-remote-for-...

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Best regards,
Misha Shnurapet, Fedora Project Contributor
Email: shnurapet AT fedoraproject.org, IRC: misha on freenode
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