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

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Nov 23 21:01:44 UTC 2009



On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote:

> pe, 2009-11-13 kello 15:02 -0500, Seth Vidal kirjoitti:
>> 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.
>
> Transifex runs msgfmt -c for the file that's being committed, so people
> can't just commit "anything". However, there is a risk of people
> committing (by accident) valid po files which belong to other projects.
>
> One way of dealing with this is to set up a separate transifex branch in
> the git repo, from which a developer pulls frequently after checking
> that the commits seem to be ok. This is how PulseAudio does it, see for
> example
> <https://translate.fedoraproject.org/projects/pulseaudio/master-tx/> and
> <http://git.0pointer.de/?p=pulseaudio.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/master-tx>.

okay. - Ville-Pekka, if you would put me in touch with whomever I have to 
talk to in order to get this set up I will make it so.

thanks,
-sv



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