Transifex quite unusable

[Luc de Louw]

Dear all,

I'm contributing some German translations since a few days. Here is some 
feedback:

In this short period I have detected some problems with Transifex:

1. It is extremely slow (more or less unusably slow)
2. It is more comfortable to use git to check out the latest po files
3. Uploading a corrected/enhanced file is extremely slow or not possible
4. Translators are unable to leave a commit message such as "Corrected 
some mistakes" or "Translated some missing strings".
5. Mistakenly overwriting a wrong po file is easily done by pointing the 
mouse a few pixels above or underneath the entry and click "browse".

How about establishing a git repository for the translators? Maybe just 
as an alternative? It would make life easier for translators.

I do not know if Transifex had a better performance in the past, at 
present it is just horrible, nearly unusable.

Thanks,

Luc

[Adam Pribyl]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Luc de Louw wrote:

>  Dear all,
>
>  I'm contributing some German translations since a few days. Here is some
>  feedback:
>
>  In this short period I have detected some problems with Transifex:
>
>  1. It is extremely slow (more or less unusably slow)
>  2. It is more comfortable to use git to check out the latest po files
>  3. Uploading a corrected/enhanced file is extremely slow or not possible
>  4. Translators are unable to leave a commit message such as "Corrected
>  some mistakes" or "Translated some missing strings".
>  5. Mistakenly overwriting a wrong po file is easily done by pointing the
>  mouse a few pixels above or underneath the entry and click "browse".
>
>  How about establishing a git repository for the translators? Maybe just
>  as an alternative? It would make life easier for translators.
>
>  I do not know if Transifex had a better performance in the past, at
>  present it is just horrible, nearly unusable. 
Even thou I agree and I have the same problems, there is a long thread 
about TX already: "translate.fedoraproject.org cannot find any catalogue".
You may find the reasoning there.

>  Thanks,
>
>  Luc 
Adam Pribyl

[Piotr Drąg]

2010/11/18 Luc de Louw <luc(a)delouw.ch&gt;:
>  How about establishing a git repository for the translators? Maybe
> just
>  as an alternative? It would make life easier for translators.
>  
It is not an acceptable solution. Maintenance burden would be much
more painful than any advantages. We are currently focusing on a the
main issue: fixing Transifex.

>  I do not know if Transifex had a better performance in the past, at
>  present it is just horrible, nearly unusable.
>  
It had much better performance in the past, working perfectly I would
say, and it is expected that update to newer version (0.9.x stable
series) will fix this.

-- 
Piotr Drąg
http://raven.pmail.pl/

[Thomas Canniot]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:10:21 +0100, Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:
>  2010/11/18 Luc de Louw <luc(a)delouw.ch&gt;:
> > How about establishing a git repository for the translators? Maybe just
> > as an alternative? It would make life easier for translators.
> >
>  
>  It is not an acceptable solution. Maintenance burden would be much
>  more painful than any advantages. We are currently focusing on a the
>  main issue: fixing Transifex.
>  
> > I do not know if Transifex had a better performance in the past, at
> > present it is just horrible, nearly unusable.
> >
>  
>  It had much better performance in the past, working perfectly I would
>  say, and it is expected that update to newer version (0.9.x stable
>  series) will fix this. 
And what if the update doesn't fix the performance problem?

Thomas

[Piotr Drąg]

2010/11/19  <thomas.canniot(a)mrtomlinux.org&gt;:
>  And what if the update doesn't fix the performance problem?
>  
I dunno. We will try to fix it in some other way, I guess.

-- 
Piotr Drąg
http://raven.pmail.pl/