[Solang-devel] Re: Damned Lies or Transifex.net

[সঙ্কর্ষণ]

Personally I'd prefer Tx over DL. I do use DL when doing GNOME but the
online editor and, the ease of use which an end-user translator has on
Tx probably tips the scales for me.

/sankarshan

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Debarshi Ray <address@hidden> wrote:
> First of all I would like to thank Adrien Beudin, Florent Thévenet,
> Piotr Drąg, Yasen Pramatarov for updating the Bulgarian, French and
> Polish translations in time for the 0.4 release. Thank you!
>
> You might have noticed that we are migrating from Savannah to GNOME
> infrastructure and this opens up a question regarding how to accept
> translations.
>
> Till now we have been using transifex.net because Transifex is cool
> and Savannah did not have an equivalent offering. Now the problem is
> that transifex.net can not submit translations to git.gnome.org. This
> is unlikely to change until the GNOME localization teams decide to use
> it and ask for a git.gnome.org account which transifex.net can then
> use to submit changes.
>
> Currently we are using our Savannah tree for accepting submissions
> from transifex.net. I periodically 'git pull --rebase' from Savannah
> to my local clone and push everything back to git.gnome.org and
> Savannah. For various reasons this is sub-optimal. I do not want to
> continue having two public trees -- one where translators submit and
> another where GNOME developers submit.
>
> Also, in the past, some of you like Andrea Zagli have suggested moving
> over to Damned Lies [1]. This was repeated by members of GNOME's
> Finnish translation team last Sunday.
>
> So we need to do something about this. Obviously you are more familar
> with localization efforts so what do you think would be a good thing
> to do?
>
> Happy hacking,
> Debarshi
>
> [1] http://l10n.gnome.org/
> --
> One reason that life is complex is that it has a real part and an
> imaginary part.
>    -- Andrew Koenig
>



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sankarshan mukhopadhyay
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