Re: New DL option for committers

[Claude <claude 2xlibre net>]

Hi Arash,

Thanks for your input, it's always good to have feedback from users.

The lack of an online editor has already showed up on this list.
We could certainly do better, but our current tool is heavily modeled 
around the GNOME infrastructure. The problem is not only to choose a 
better translator tool, it is also to adapt and maintain it in the 
longer term.
Anyone can suggest other tools, but for a change to happen, it will 
require thorough investigation and a proof-of-concept project.

Cheers,

Claude

Le 18. 10. 15 17:30, mousavi arash gmail com a écrit :
> Hi Claude,
>
> "Damned Lies" is a nice tool, but not really a full featured one. In
> comparison to other translations tools, I think a lot of effort is
> wasted on learning and working with repositories, reviewing, making the
> glossaries... Me, as a coordinator of a very small localization team on
> Gnome, find it very hard to find and keep people contributing to gnome
> localization, because of this matter: it's hard. I also often prefer
> people not to contribute at all, while it's very time consuming to
> review translation than translating them all by myself, and damned lies
> does not really help on this matter either.
>
> I just wanted to draw your attention to a tool Mozilla is working on,
> Pontoon [1][2]. They also found it hard to integrate their tools and
> repositories with Pootle, so they started Pontoon and they're migrating
> most of the old Pootle stuff into Pontoon. While it's written with
> Python and Django (which I'm not a fan of both), you might wanna take a
> look and see if gnome infrastructure can also use Pontoon.
>
> I can also offer my help on developing a new tool for Gnome, but I'm a
> Ruby/Rails/JS developer. If I knew Python I'd be contributing to "Damned
> Lies" already.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Arash
>
> [1] https://pontoon.mozilla.org/
> [2] https://github.com/mozilla/pontoon
>
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 1:54 AM, Claude <claude 2xlibre net
> <mailto:claude 2xlibre net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I'd just like to draw your attention on an enhancement made today to
>     l10n.gnome.org <http://l10n.gnome.org> when committing through the
>     Web interface. If the commit is in a non-master branch, you have now
>     the possibility to check the "Sync to master" checkbox which will
>     cherry-pick the commit on the master branch directly.
>     I hope this will save a bit of work to some of you.
>
>     Blessings,
>
>     Claude
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