[publican-list] [Fwd: Re: r1722 - in trunk/publican-fedora: . .tx]

[Jeff Fearn]

Just to clue people in on what has actually happened.

Fedora infrastructure has been running an instance of Transifex for some
time. This installation has been plagued by terrible performance and an
almost complete inability to maintain or upgrade it. AIUI almost all of
these issues are related to the software itself.

Travel forward to recent times when Fedora decided not to host an
instance anymore, because it's unmaintainable, and so decided to migrate
hosted applications without going to the rather obvious step of asking
the associated projects if it was OK to migrate them to a commercial
entities site.

Now I for one am rather hesitant to move to a hosted commercial instance
run by people who make software that a team of people can't update or
maintain. I'm double hesitant when the whole migration process was done
without public consultation with the projects themselves.

At this point I'm willing to wield my Project Leaders Veto on accepting
transifex.net content. Giving commercial entities rights over our name
and sources is a serious step, doing it without due consideration is
rather foolish, and doing it on other peoples behalf is morally
offensive and pretty much illegal.

Cheers, Jeff.

On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 06:13 -0600, Nick Bebout wrote:
> Per jfearn's request, forwarding this to publican-list.
> 
> Nick
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: Re: r1722 - in trunk/publican-fedora: . .tx
> From:    "Nick Bebout" <nick at bebout.net>
> Date:    Tue, February 22, 2011 6:07 am
> To:      "jfearn at redhat.com" <jfearn at redhat.com>
> Cc:      "nb at fedoraproject.org" <nb at fedoraproject.org>
>          "Ruediger Landmann" <rlandman at redhat.com>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Fedora is now doing translations through transifex.net, instead of running
> our own transifex instance.  The .tx/config are what maps "resources" in
> the transifex site to the pot and po's in the source repository.  For what
> it's worth, .tx/config would be needed, even if Fedora upgraded our
> current transifex to 1.0 or higher.  The only difference would be the URL
> at the top of the file. (the way I understand it is Fedora provides
> translations for both publican and publican-fedora, but please correct me
> if that is not true.)
> 
> We can live without having the .tx/config file stored in svn, but it'll be
> harder because rudi and I (or whoever) will have to make our own copy (or
> send each other a copy) before updating the pot on tx.net or pulling the
> updated po's to update in svn.
> 
> I would request you allow the .tx/config files to be stored in svn again.
> 
> Nick
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Feb 21, 2011, at 23:41, Jeff Fearn <jfearn at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am not happy with having content for commercial enterprises in the
> > Publican repository. Doing so without discussing this on the Publican
> > list is unacceptable, please start a discussion now.
> >
> > Cheers, Jeff.
> >
> > On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 04:12 +0000, nb at fedoraproject.org wrote:
> >> Author: nb
> >> Date: 2011-02-22 04:12:36 +0000 (Tue, 22 Feb 2011)
> >> New Revision: 1722
> >>
> >> Added:
> >>   trunk/publican-fedora/.tx/
> >>   trunk/publican-fedora/.tx/config
> >> Log:
> >> Add publican-fedora/.tx/config
> >>
> >>
> >> Added: trunk/publican-fedora/.tx/config
> >> ===================================================================
> >> --- trunk/publican-fedora/.tx/config                            (rev 0)
> >> +++ trunk/publican-fedora/.tx/config    2011-02-22 04:12:36 UTC (rev 1722)
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
> >> +[main]
> >> +host = https://www.transifex.net
> >> +
> >> +[publican-fedora.Feedback]
> >> +file_filter = <lang>/Feedback.po
> >> +source_file = pot/Feedback.pot
> >> +source_lang = en
> >> +
> >> +[publican-fedora.Logos]
> >> +file_filter = <lang>/Logos.po
> >> +source_file = pot/Logos.pot
> >> +source_lang = en
> >> +
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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