Re: Comments for HEAD at l10n.gnome.org are hidden when switching to branch

[Petr Kovar <pmkovar gnome org>]

Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>, Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:37:06 +0100:

> Le mercredi 18 mars 2009 à 18:25 +0000, Simos a écrit :
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > An issue that has been noted at the local GNOME EL mailing list and
> > vertimus, is that comments/submissions that have been made to
> > l10n.gnome.org for HEAD are "hidden"
> > as soon as the project switches to a branch.
> > 
> > For example, there are no comments/messages at
> > http://l10n.gnome.org/vertimus/orca/gnome-2-26/po/el
> > however, if one replaces manually 'gnome-2-26' to 'HEAD', then the
> > information appear,
> > http://l10n.gnome.org/vertimus/orca/HEAD/po/el
> > 
> > The reason we need to change by hand the URL is that we do not have
> > yet a stable 2.26 on l10n.gnome.org,
> > which would bring up a new 2.28 development release with all packages
> > being HEAD.
> > Is there a workaround here that I might be missing?
> 
> You can always reach the HEAD (and all other branches) vertimus pages
> through the main module page.
> http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca/
> 
> But the issue is a real one (and would need a formal bug report).
> A workaround would be that each time a new branch is created and when
> the HEAD branch contains some current action, a note is added to the new
> branch vertimus page, pointing to the HEAD page, something like "See
> also http://...";.

I'd say this issue also relates to the inability to permamently assign a
translator to the module (i.e. bug 568770 –
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568770). Or more precisely,
(workflow) information that can be found on the HEAD page of a module and
that should be copied to a new module (sub)page when creating a branch
record in Vertimus could include a permanent reservation notice too.

Cheers,
Petr Kovar