[Freeipa-devel] Announcing FreeIPA v3.0.0 beta 2 Release

[John Dennis]

On 08/20/2012 05:27 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Jérôme Fenal wrote:
>>
>> 2012/8/17 Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com <mailto:rcritten at redhat.com>>
>>
>>      The FreeIPA team is proud to announce version FreeIPA v3.0.0 beta 2.
>>
>>
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> Regarding translations, I don't see yet a 3.0 branch on Transifex. Is it
>> in the pipeline, so we could have time to work on translations for 3.0 GA?
>
> The master branch in Transifex equivalent to the master branch in IPA,
> and has been updated recently.
>
> We plan to branch for 3.0 in the IPA repo, I suppose we can look into
> branching in Transifex at the same time, but for now it should be safe
> to work from master. I don't believe Transifex really handles branches
> very well, but John knows more about it than I.

Transifex has no concept of branches much to many developers dismay. The 
suggested solution in Transifex to create a new resource for each branch 
(which is what we did with 2.2). Currently in TX we have an ipa resource 
which maps to git's master and a 2.2 resource which maps to git's 2.2 
branch..

It's kind of sucky because there is no connection in TX between 
resources and hence branches, each resource stands on it's own. That 
means even though 90% of the strings in one resource are the same as 
another resource (because they're just different branch versions) 
translators won't have the advantage of that information (unless they know).

I brought the question of software branches up in the TX forums and was 
met with deafening silence.


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