L10n fedmsg integration?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:51:04AM -0400, Ralph Bean wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:24:57AM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > Is there any way to attach an outside hosted service such as Zanata or
> > Transifex to the Fedora's fedmsg bus?  Sorry if this is a naive
> > question.
> 
> Yeah, I looked into it with Transifex.  They provide a
> pubsubhubbub-like interface which would let us bridge nicely.
> This is exactly how we currently interface with GitHub:
> https://apps.fedoraproject.org/GitHub2fedmsg
> Whenever an event would occur in GitHub or Transifex, they would send
> an http POST to a listening web service on our side.  Our web service
> would then re-broadcast that event as a fedmsg event.
> 
> The problem with Transifex, though, is that they do not
> cryptographically sign their POSTs, which opens us up to.. anybody.
> (GitHub actually signs each POST so we know its coming from them).
> 
> I haven't looked at Zanata yet, though.

ISTM we have an untapped stream of contributions we could recognize if
the translation system (whichever it is) would sign those POSTs.  I'm
not sure whether glezos is on this list, but I'll ask him whether this
is an interesting RFE, and do the same for Zanata.

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