Re: Addition of new system-tools-backends strings to Damned Lies

[Carlos Garnacho <carlos imendio com>]

Hi!,

Just wanted to let you know that I've just added the s-t-b repo to
git.gnome.org, it's at:

http://git.gnome.org/cgit/system-tools-backends-clone/

I'll keep an eye on it and will be pushing translations to the
freedesktop repo.

On lun, 2009-03-30 at 15:43 +0200, Claude Paroz wrote:
> Le lundi 30 mars 2009 à 14:32 +0200, Carlos Garnacho a écrit :
> > Hi!,
> > 
> > On dom, 2009-03-29 at 21:18 +0200, Claude Paroz wrote:
> > > Le dimanche 29 mars 2009 à 15:11 +0200, David Planella a écrit :
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > 
> > > > I just wanted to mention that after fixing this bug [1], there are a
> > > > few new strings in system-tools-backends which should be added to
> > > > Damned Lies.
> > > 
> > > The problem is that s-t-b is not hosted on GNOME infrastructure. It used
> > > to have more translatable strings and the translation process was
> > > delegated to the Translation Project [3].
> > > So someone has to prepare a pre-release containing a pot file, submit it
> > > to the TP, wait some days so as translators can submit their work, get
> > > back the translations in the s-t-b repo, and release a new s-t-b
> > > version.
> > > Considering the time taken by the patch in #528015 to be committed, I
> > > have some doubts about the speed of the above process :-(
> > > 
> > > An alternative would be to delegate the translation to GNOME
> > > translators, and we could send a tarball with translations to the s-t-b
> > > (ex)maintainer. Carlos, any thought?
> > 
> > I think that GNOME repos moving to git will be really helpful here. Back
> > then, when I chose to use the TP, there were quite a lot of strings,
> > quite prone to changes/additions, and s-t-b used CVS, so it quite looked
> > like the best option.
> > 
> > Nowadays such strings actually moved to frontends (gnome-system-tools)
> > and the PolicyKit strings are quite unlikely to change often. So we
> > could just set up a clone of s-t-b in GNOME git repos, and I could push
> > translations there into the fdo one.
> 
> Nice plan!
> 
> > > 
> > > Claude
> > > 
> > > [3] http://translationproject.org/domain/system-tools-backends.html
> > > 
> > > > I do not know whether there will be time for that, but it might also
> > > > be worth thinking of releasing a new version of s-t-b with these
> > > > changes for 2.26.1, so that the translations are available to users.
> > > > At least one distro (Ubuntu [2]) has already patched and released
> > > > s-t-b.
> > 
> > Hmm, if we're officially switching to git after 2.26.1, my proposal
> > above wouldn't work for this... I you're willing to do this, you can
> > send me translations (preferably using git-format-patch) and I'll apply
> > them ASAP in order to make a release for 2.26.1
> 
> I'm sure sysadmins would be ok to create a s-t-b clone in the current
> git.gnome.org infrastructure, as other modules already did. I suggest
> you contact owen on #sysadmin pointing him on this thread.
> Then just tell us when the repo is set up.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Claude   
> 
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > David.
> > > > 
> > > > [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528015
> > > > [2] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/system-tools-backends/+bug/207677/comments/6
> > > > _______________________________________________
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