[Yum-devel] Adding yum translation submissions to Fedora's Transifex?

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Nov 13 20:02:26 UTC 2009



On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote:

> I've just sent the initial Finnish translation for yum
> <http://yum.baseurl.org/ticket/335> which is why I'd like to discuss
> about enabling Transifex submissions for yum.
>
> Yum is already listed in Fedora's Transifex at
> <https://translate.fedoraproject.org/projects/yum/yum-3_2_X/>, but
> translation submissions are not allowed. There are some projects in
> Fedora's Transifex which are considered as upstream projects separate
> from Fedora, but still accept translation submissions (for example
> Avahi, PulseAudio and PackageKit).
>
> Would it be possible to enable translation submissions via Transifex? I
> think it would make the whole submission process a lot simpler,
> translators wouldn't have to make trac tickets and developers wouldn't
> have to manually commit translations attached to those tickets. I
> believe this might increase the number of translations and lead to yum
> having more up-to-date translations.
>
> I don't know the exact technical details of enabling the commits, but if
> the yum developers are interested, we could talk about it with the
> Fedora Translation Project.
>

My initial reticence to Transifex is the concern with giving direct access 
to check items into the yum's base git repo from a foreign source. It 
fills me with dread.

However, I'd like to hear the opinions of the other folks who commit to 
yum.

Would y'all rather open up yum's git tree to transifex?

-sv



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