L10n fedmsg integration?

Ralph Bean rbean at redhat.com
Thu Jul 24 23:58:59 UTC 2014


On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 03:14:05PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:12:54PM +1000, Sean Flanigan wrote:
> > On 2014-07-24 03:02, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Zanata doesn't integrate with any buses yet, but a concrete use case
> > will help, so please feel free to submit an RFE.
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Zanata
> 
> One use case would be for rewarding Fedora translation contributors
> with badges via the Fedora Badges app[1].  Having translation
> submissions trigger a message on the fedmsg bus allows the Badges app
> to record and award those.  Our experience has shown community members
> like receiving these badges and exhibiting them for the
> accomplishments and contributions they represent.
> 
> Ralph, would you be willing to file the RFE with details on signing
> the POSTs to prevent abuse?

Not at all.  I sent it up this morning:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1122776
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