[Qgis-psc] svn write access for GUI translators

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Otto Dassau <otto.dassau at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Werner indirectly asked, if there is a possibility to provide write access
> to GUI translators or at least GUI translation coordinators. I don't know, if
> that makes sense, because we now have about ?30? languages and if they all
> get write access to the qgis sources, it might be a problem - or not?
>
> Is there any solution to this or should we stick to the procedure we use at
> the moment, that Werner commits the ts files for the translators.
>

The SAC guys don't seem to like giving granular permissions in SVN and
I don't think it's a good idea to open write commit access so broadly.
This is another good use case for GIT - Werner maintains his own clone
and gives the tr() team push access to it, then periodically pushes
those changes upstream to SVN. I believe it is possible to work like
this with GIT-SVN - perhaps Gary or Pirmin could confirm.

Alternatively we could do things a different way and extend the scope
of our suite of django apps to include a ts() upload portal which
commits ts() changes as they come in from some kind of system account.
Possibly open to abuse I guess though I think we could create a system
osgeo user account and just check out the i18n dir, then when a ts
update is pushed to the portal, our django view just drops it into the
checkout dir and commits the change.

Regards

Tim

> What do you think?
>
> regards,
>  Otto
>
> Am Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:36:31 +0100
> schrieb Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi Giovanni!
>>
>> But as I already told you .. manual translations AND QGIS are in ONE
>> repository .. So I think I will have to talk to Otto if we can seperate
>> the translation files to give at least the coordinators access to
>> translation files.. I already thought about creating an own svn repository
>> just for translations - disadvantage here is that the translators can
>> destroy the translations if they don't know howto handle it correctly
>
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