Some fedora projects are still not using transifex (properly)

[Dimitris Glezos]

Without the developer putting at least some initial L10n setup love,
it's not possible for translations to work properly. If we really want
things totally automated, we'll need to integrate Tx with Koji and
provide our own lang packs. This is something interesting which
requires work and sounds like a good GSoC.

Today the developer needs to setup his project and use the client to
send & receive the files. He can simply integrate the commands in his
Makefile. To make this easier, I suppose we could create a common
Makefile which Fedora developers could include.

-d


On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Kévin Raymond
<shaiton at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> We have moved to transifex.net long ago now, and still some projects
> are not alive to us!
> Some devels just don't know how to deal with transifex and
> transifex-client, some does not know that they have to pull (or fill
> the hook URL on the project setup), and some just never build update
> with our translations.
> That's really painful for us, who spend so much time providing translations.
>
> And know, we have the ability to proofread translations, but devels
> simply don't know about it cause they don't read transifex release
> notes. And they are devels, not translators, they should not have to.
>
> How could we efficiently deal with them?
> Writing on devel? Too noisy there.
> Filling trac tickets? Probably the best solution, but take lot of time
> for the reporter to explain what is needed.
> IMHO, our FLSCo members should do that, but this is a lot for few
> people (how many of our FLSCo seats are alive???).
>
> The most important to me is to clean our projects.
> Could we have a list of dead upstream to ping? By dead uptream, I mean
> projects without any maintainer, without anyone which is pulling our
> translations and pushing pot back.
> This could be done by filtering projects with wrong maintainers like
> Dimitris[1] (linked to [2]), and also the one who have never pushed a
> pot for a long time (or even never pulled if possible, dunno what we
> can see from the Indifex side).
>
> [1] https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/system-config-bind/
> [2] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2012-February/009631.html
>
> --
> Kévin Raymond
> (shaiton)
> GPG-Key: A5BCB3A2



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