Transifex has become proprietary

[Isaac Rooskov]

Hi Jerome and team!

Super-excited to find this discussion going on, and thank you for the invite to join in. 

1. This type of notification system is something we are actually working on at the moment (and I actually mean that). The first iteration will be to have notification's going to a 'Zanata inbox' on a users Dashboard, with email notifications coming next. The reason we have decided on this approach is to ensure we get the notification system right before we start emailing them to people. We would hate for people to start looking at Zanata notifications as spam so it is very important to us that we get this right.  

3. I agree that this would be a great enhancement for Zanata and you are not the first to suggest it. Luke, our UI designer (Cc'ed in), has recently been going through and reworking our project view pages with many improvements, and this is one that is on that to-do list. I'll be honest in that if Fedora did choose to use Zanata then priorities can be re-adjusted to meet your needs in a more urgent fashion. As an example, adjustment to priorities is something that we have recently done based on feedback from the OpenStack project starting to use Zanata. 

Any and all ideas or improvements you'd like to see to Zanata please do add them as bugs to Bugzilla here: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Zanata

If you add "Fedora" into the bug names then we will be easily able to sort through and pick out the ones important to you all here, which will be a great help in ensuring we target improvements you wish to see.

I am personally going to be on leave all next week, so I have also Cc'ed in Carlos who is the engineering lead for the project.

Thank you, 

Isaac

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jérôme Fenal" <jfenal at gmail.com>
To: "Fedora Translation Project List" <trans at lists.fedoraproject.org>
Cc: "Isaac Rooskov" <irooskov at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 2:49:18 AM
Subject: Re: Transifex has become proprietary

2014-07-10 18:43 GMT+02:00 Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor at ukr.net>:
> написане Thu, 10 Jul 2014 18:50:10 +0300, William Moreno
> <williamjmorenor at gmail.com>:
>
>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2) Today we have a process for new translators extremely broken and
>>> manual, very different from other teams, I'm part of Packager team where
>>> process is very clear and integrated with Fedora infra. A new translator
>>> need to follow these steps to be approved:
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Guide#Becoming _ a_Fedora_Translator,
>>> we can realize there is no integration of Transifex with our FAS, Mailing
>>> list, Badges and especially with our Wiki, I think it's more relevant to
>>> the translation teams these issues than the interface.
>>>
>>>
>> +1 I am looking than Zanata alow to login with FAS, since that, I think
>> Zanata could work better with the de Fedora Infra :)
>
>
> Hi,
>
> No objections about Zanata. Just two remarks:
>
> 1. Is it possible to configure email notifications for RH Zanata server? It
> is hard to control large catalogs (similar to Fedora's one) without
> notifications.
>
> 2. Can we do the migration right after the next string freeze? It is hard to
> test and update translations during such migrations (proven by Tx
> migration).

No objections either, provided the Zanata instance handles the load.

Adding Isaac to the conversation if not already on the list for RFEs:
3. One feature that is nice with Transifex is the ability to have a
pseudo-tree view of projects, whereas in Zanata, we end up with just a
list of projects, where it becomes difficult to find a particular
project.

Regards,

J.
-- 
Jérôme Fenal

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Isaac Rooskov
Supervisor, Localization Services
Product Manager, Zanata
Red Hat