[Mageia-i18n] Workflow for i18n translators

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2010/12/18 Funda Wang <fundawang at gmail.com>:
> 2010/12/18 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>:
>> We already have 2 major points which (according to what I read so far)
>> are important:
>>  - online and offline work should be possible.
>>  - only 2 or 3 translators of each language should be able to commit
>> (which implies collaboration)
> FYI, since transifex 1.0, it provides a nice CLI toolkit for both
> translators and developers. Translators could sync and commit po file
> directly to transifex platform via this toolkit, without any web
> interface.

So the translator can choose either CLI  or the web GUI to get and put
po files to Transifex. Ok, no problem, that's the single translator's
choice. How does Transifex handle conflicts between the existing file
in the collaboration platform and the file being put from a translator
who has worked offline?

> And, the task of commit translation to VCS becomes the duty of
> developer, not the transifex robot anymore. We might want to improve
> our mgasys tool, so that something like "mgasys tag urpmi 4.0" would
> commit translations from transifex to our VCS, then tag it into
> soft/urpmi/tags/4.0, and finally generate a urpmi-4.0.tar.xz in the
> developers harddisk.

Ok, can't say anything about this because I don't know the technical
side of the story.
-- 
wobo