[OT] long-quotes-cant-read-mails [was Re: F10 Documentation]

Runa Bhattacharjee runab at redhat.com
Tue Sep 30 11:50:45 UTC 2008


Apologies in advance for sounding preachy..

<nag mode>
can we perhaps snip non-relevant portions of the content when replying to mails[1]. Endless 
scrolling and formatting blues often hide away the really important bits from the reply.

</nag mode>

Thanks a lot and apologies for top-posting.

regards
Runa

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines#If_You_Are_Replying_to_a_Message


Asgeir Frimannsson wrote:
> ----- "Asgeir Frimannsson" <asgeirf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Dimitris Glezos <dimitris at glezos.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 2008/9/29 Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>:
>>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 05:19:14PM +0530, Ankitkumar Rameshchandra
>> Patel wrote:
>>>>> Dimitris Glezos wrote:
>>>>>> 2008/9/26 Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:08:31PM +0300, Dimitris Glezos
>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> We'll need the usual steps followed to add these modules to
>> transifex:
>>>>>>>>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/FAQ#add-transifex
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The most important ones are having 'transif' added to the
>> respective
>>>>>>>> account system groups and notifying us with which <VCS root,
>> module,
>>>>>>>> branch> to use. One bug report for all moved Docs would be
>> sufficient,
>>>>>>>> and we can re-open it when a new module has been moved.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>> All 7 docs projects have been registered and enabled [1] in
>> Transifex.
>>>>>>   https://translate.fedoraproject.org/submit/module/
>>>>>>
>>>>> Can we get all 7 docs projects enabled in DL as well?
>>>> I think Dimitris mentioned earlier that Damned Lies won't support
>>>> Publican's multiple POT files.  It would be great if Red Hat
>> I18n/L10n
>>>> would collaborate with the community to help pave the way for
>>>> statistics reporting for these repos.  I don't know whether that
>> means
>>>> fixing part of DL, or simply accelerating the rate at which
>>>> statistical support in Tx is written.  I know Dimitris, Asgeir,
>> and
>>>> any of the other Tx developers would be thrilled to have some
>>>> assistance with this.
>>> Patches are welcome with champagnes and fireworks, as always. :D
>>>
>>>> In the meantime, Dimitris also suggested a workaround using some
>> sort
>>>> of simple Python script.  I doubt that's been written yet, maybe
>>>> someone can help there?
>>> Here's a sample skeleton for such a script/scenario, for anyone
>> who'd
>>> like to actually code it.
>>>
>>> -----------------------
>>> == Get the source ==
>>>
>>> First time:
>>> $ project-list = ['about', 'release-notes']
>>> $ for p in project-list:
>>>  git clone git://git.fedoraproject.org/git/{p}.git
>>>
>>> Later, to pull new changes:
>>> $ for p in project-list:
>>>  git fetch && ...
>>>
>>> == Calculate statistics ==
>>> $ wget http://.../fedora-docs-l10n-script.py
>>> $ python fedora-docs-l10n-script.py pt_BR
>>> pt_BR statistics:
>>> about: 80% (115T, 40F, 10U)
>>> release-notes: 80% (115T, 40F, 10U)
>>> -----------------------
>> If I remember correctly, publican actually has a 'genearate
>> translation statistics' make target that can even generate HTML.
>>
>> Would it be ok If I set up a cron job that:
>> 1) Puts translation statistics on a public web page (to make it
>> simple, e.g. my fedorapeople web space)
>> 2) Sends updated statistics to fedora-trans-list daily, or even after
>> each 'submission' depending on how much we want to spam that list...
>>
>> In addition, we could add a link to this stats through the front page
>> of translate.fedoraproject.org
>>
>> Comments on this workflow is welcome, but I'll try to make sure we at
>> least have some statistics for our documentation SOON.
>>
>> I guess the fedora infrastructure is in 'freeze' mode, so I'm not
>> sure
>> how easy it would be to make the script run inside the
>> infrastructure... But the main concern now is giving translators some
>> statistics :)
>>
>> But first for some breakfast...
> 
> Could anyone review the attached script for converting release-notes to a publican-friendly PO structure?
> Figured I'd learn ABC in bash scripting while I was at it...
> I could send out a git patch, but it makes it a bit hard to see what I was doing...
> 
> cheers,
> asgeir
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