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

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

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
> > > _______________________________________________