On the localization infrasturcutre of the Docs project

[Dimitris Glezos]

Re-opening this thread to make sure everything is working fine with Transifex.

Jack, the two issues reported are marked as resolved, can you please
let us know if there is anything else obstructing the usage of
Transifex for Docs?

 https://github.com/transifex/transifex-client/issues/25
 https://github.com/transifex/transifex-client/issues/28

-d


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Jack Reed <jreed at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/25/2013 01:42 PM, Dimitri Glezos wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> There is a lot of confusion on the L10n group on where some of our
>> docs are translated. At some point it seems that some docs owners have
>> decided (or were asked) to put their projects on a Zanata server
>> instead of Transifex.
>>
>>   https://fedora.transifex.com/
>>   https://fedora.transifex.com/projects/p/fedora/access/outsource/
>>
>> Can you please shed some more light on the topic?
>>
>> -d
>>
>
> My apologies for not weighing in on this sooner. Between a public holiday,
> wild weather, and floods, it's been a rocky few days here in Brisbane.
>
> I'll just recap what led the Installation Guide and Installation Quick Start
> Guide to Zanata. The impetus was that the sheer size of the Installation
> Guide made uploading it all to Transifex impossible. Between the necessarily
> lengthy filenames and timeouts, I couldn't complete the push, and
> translation time was being lost.
>
> So I made the files available on Zanata rather than not making them
> available at all, because translation time was dwindling. On both docs-list
> and trans-list, I made the technical reasons clear and also emphasised that
> the move was for purely technical reasons, rather than being reflective of a
> desire to move more projects on to Zanata. As far as I was concerned,
> Zanata's involvement in Fedora documentation translation was confined to
> these two guides, and even then, not necessarily indefinitely.
>
> Dimitri did indeed ask me to lodge a bug about the problems I'd encountered
> with Transifex back in July, but because Zanata was working fine and time
> was short, gathering that information to help address the Transifex issue
> regrettably became a low priority.
>
> However, when time opened up following the huge overhaul of the Installation
> Guide for Fedora 18, I circled back and lodged the bug. I actually did so
> the day after finishing my work on the guide for F18 and publishing it.
>
> My apologies for not replying to the bug with the necessary information
> sooner - a lack of time was to blame. I will try to work out the
> characteristics of the timeouts and reply to the bug within a week so the
> Transifex team can look into it further.
>
> I'm sorry for the confusion and frustration this has caused, but I was clear
> as I could be about the reasoning behind these changes at the time they were
> made, and I was doing my best to ensure that translation of these books was
> assisted rather than undermined.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jack
>
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