Re: Batch-download all GNOME po directories

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le samedi 18 avril 2009 à 18:32 +0000, F Wolff a écrit :
> Op Sa, 2009-04-18 om 15:38 +0100 skryf Simos Xenitellis:
> 
> ...
> 
> > What I would suggest is to try to clone the repositories of the GNOME
> > release,
> > and keep those on your system. We now know the figures;
> > the GNOME 2.26 Git repositories would take about 2.6GB on your disk.
> > If you were to download these files in a compressed .tar.bz2, the file
> > would be around 1.6GB.
> > It would be quite straightforward to use a download manager and get a
> > 1.6GB file.
> 
> ... assuming a certain hard drive space and level of connectivity to be
> available.
> 
> It is actually not as big as I thought it would be, considering it
> contains all branches of all projects. Git is really quite efficient. I
> will however continue to download stuff directly from damned lies and
> asking other people to commit on my behalf until damned lies can commit.
> I am lucky that I probably have the bandwidth to be able to download 1.6
> GB over a few days/weeks, but I don't have hard drive space at the
> moment :-)
> 
> Translating GNOME is so much fun, I do it in my free time and I enjoy
> it. One of the main reasons is because it is easy to do and the overhead
> is minimal. As long as we continue to make it possible for people to
> contribute as easily as it is now, I think we will continue to draw more
> people (and I will continue to recommend it to people starting out with
> localisation).
> 
> A big thank you to everybody helping to make this the joy that it is
> (and everybody committing for me :-)

Wow, Friedel, you can write such mail every day, if you want. Thanks,
that is very encouraging (especially after spending lots of hours for a
technical migration...).

Peace be with you!

Claude