GNOMECAT and Damned Lies Integration.

[Marcos Chavarría Teijeiro <chavarria1991 gmail com>]

Hi all,

I'm Marcos Chavarría, the creator of GNOMECAT [1][2]. This application
has been created during last summer as part of GSoC program and It
should be finished this summer (I've got selected again :D).

I know that what I'm going to tell you here is some kind of castles in
the sky because the basic features of the app are not finished yet but
I pretend to present this idea as a project to apply as collaborating
student at Igalia [3].

I realize that the workflow for translator in GNOME is kind of
tedious. You have to go to the Damned Lies platform view what modules
are assigned to you, download the po file, use an external program to
translate it and then the file has to be uploaded using the Damned
Lies platform again. If you are reviewer or a committer it's even more
tiresome because you also have to deal with git (in fact Fran Dieguez
who is the Galician team coordinator has created some tools to make
this easier [4]).

My idea consists on integrate Damned Lies with GNOMECAT. So you will
be able to download your assigned modules directly from the program,
upload the files without opening damned lies website and even commit
the translations to the module repository easier.

I would like to ask both translators and Damned Lies developers that
are subscribed to this list, their opinion about this idea. Any idea,
critic or question is really welcome.

Best Regards,
Marcos Chavarría Teijeiro.


[1] https://github.com/chavaone/gnomecat
[2] http://aquelando.info/categoria/informatica/gsoc/
[3] http://www.igalia.com/nc/igalia-247/news/item/opportunities-for-students-at-igalia+/
[4] https://github.com/frandieguez/gnome-l10n-tools