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

[Petr Kovar <pmkovar gnome org>]

Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>, Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:48:00 +0100:

> Le mercredi 18 mars 2009 à 19:37 +0100, Claude Paroz a écrit :
> > 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 followed the following approach, a little more general: each time you
> load a vertimus page, it checks if there is some activity on any other
> branch of the same module, and display a warning when it finds some.
> See e.g. http://l10n.gnome.org/vertimus/orca/gnome-2-26/po/el

I can picture a situation where a translator overlooks such notice, but
nevertheless, it's surely an improvement. Thank you for that, Claude.

Best,
Petr Kovar