Re: Web interface for translation for GNOME

[Dimitris Glezos <dimitris glezos com>]

On 31 August 2013 15:46, Gil Forcada <gforcada gnome org> wrote:

[...] a team that
decides that it would be useful for them to have an online translation
tool could create a project on Launchpad or Transifex, do the
translations there and then just commit the translations to
git.gnome.org. Is that even possible?

This is correct. It could be as easy as:

Push English strings from git to Tx:

 $ git pull

 $ tx push --source

Push translations from Tx to git:

 $ tx pull --lang pt_BR

 $ git commit

If someone is coding it *right now*, sure, I will gladly review the
patches, try to understand them and push them, but if that's just a wish
list, the wish will probably have to wait...

Having developed this functionality in the past (web editor which commits in repo upon save), I highly recommend against it. It's very error-prone, big can of worms. Also what Gil said, it's not worth the time with all those good tools out there.

For what it's worth, the way we worked around it is to actually treat Transifex as the canonical place where translations leave instead of git. Like a VCS for translations on a string-level with many additional metadata Gettext does not support. Git just mirrors this (with automated commit scripts etc). This is  also one of the biggest differences with the current GNOME workflow/setup. But, Gil is right, it is possible for specific teams which choose it.

Hope this helps.

-d

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Dimitris Glezos

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