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

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote:

> ma, 2009-11-23 kello 16:01 -0500, Seth Vidal kirjoitti:
>>
>> 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
>
> I'm CCing this mail to the Fedora Translation list and to Dimitris
> Glezos and Diego Búrigo Zacarão personally. They are also upstream
> Transifex developers, so they're probably the best people to answer any
> questions on setting up Transifex commit access.

Ville,
  I've set yum up with transifex. If you want to sign up for it I'll add 
you for access to push stuff via transifex.

thanks,
-sv