[Qgis-psc] svn write access for GUI translators

[Otto Dassau]

Hi,

ok, I will propose this (git) to Werner.

Thanks, Otto

Am Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:12:58 -0900
schrieb Gary Sherman <gsherman at geoapt.com>:

> 
> 
> On Dec 7, 2010, at 0:11, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> This is a perfect use case for git. Simple and ready to go right now. 
> 
> 
> -Gary
> GeoApt LLC
> Chair, Quantum GIS PSC
> > 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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