cvsl10n CVSROOT (RFR)

[Dimitris Glezos]

O/H Karsten Wade έγραψε:
> On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 17:34 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Dimitris Glezos (dimitris at glezos.com) said: 
>>> Our translators have made it clear they want to use a SCM for the translations
>>> and said an *additional* web-based tool would be nice. So, let's first create
>>> our SCM and we'll see about whether we should use pootle.
>> Use *one* SCM. How to gate currently hosted GIT/HG/etc into this is 
>> unclear. :/
> 
> A first iteration at a solution could look like this:
> 
> * Projects, regardless of SCM, generate POT file and use WUI or CLI to
> schedule pick-up of their POT into l10n.fp.o
> 
> * l10n.fp.o has a WUI that sits in front of >1 SCM and has the ability
> to:
>   - Translate through the WUI (download POT, upload PO)
>   - Use one account (FAS) for all access (regardless of back-end SCM, it
> needs a *l10n group that all L10N members are within)
>   - Provide statistics across all SCMs
> 
> * For translators who want to use the CLI entirely for translations,
> they need to work directly with the SCM, however ...
> 
> Note that I suggest a CLI for access to the same services the WUI is
> providing.  The idea here would be to grow a CLI (fedoral10n?) that acts
> like the WUI - it interacts with >1 back-end SCM, uses FAS for auth+,
> etc.
> 
> So, first feature of the fedoral10n CLI would be for developers (and
> scripts) to automate the management of POT/PO files.  Second feature
> would be to give translators equivalent control that the WUI provides.

So, we've got two issues with L10N:

 1. Enabling proper ACLs on CVS
 2. The Web User Interface

Mike is working on the first.

An RFR for this has been opened at:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/RFR/L10nCVSandUI

-d



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