[Freeipa-devel] Move FreeIPA translations to Zanata?

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 13:42:25 +0100
Martin Kosek <mkosek at redhat.com> wrote:

> I am forwarding my conversation with the Noriko from Fedora
> localization team to the devel list, see below. What do you guys
> think? Any concerns with moving FreeIPA translations from Transifex
> to Zanata? SSSD project is moving there as well.
> 
> The move has +1 from me, the Zanata platform looks great, many
> projects are migrating to it AND it is open source (unlike Transifex).
> 
> The actual migration should be pretty straightforward. Tomas Babej
> already volunteered to take care of the localization process. The
> Fedora localization team will help with any Zanata specifics, so it
> should be pretty smooth move.

I see no problem moving to Zanata.

Simo.

> Thanks,
> Martin
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Re: ShRe: zanata: freeipa-guide  is migrated to
> fedora.zanata.org Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 11:28:30 +1000
> From: Noriko Mizumoto <noriko at redhat.com>
> Reply-To: noriko at redhat.com
> Organization: Red Hat
> To: Martin Kosek <mkosek at redhat.com>, Ding Yi Chen <dchen at redhat.com>
> CC: Carlos Munoz <camunoz at redhat.com>, Patrick Huang
> <pahuang at redhat.com>, Alex Eng <aeng at redhat.com>
> 
> (2015年01月08日 21:07), Martin Kosek wrote:
> > On 01/08/2015 01:22 AM, Ding Yi Chen wrote:
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> On 01/06/2015 08:14 AM, Ding Yi Chen wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> The migration of the "freeipa-guide" project translations to
> >>>> Zanata is now complete.
> >>>> Translators can start working now at
> >>>> https://fedora.zanata.org/project/view/freeipa-guide
> >>>>
> >>>> To use Zanata, you need to
> >>>> 1. Register in https://fedora.zanata.org
> >>>> 2. If you are not the maintainer of your project yet, contact
> >>>> the admin to add you as maintainer.
> >>>> 3. Follow the instruction
> >>>> http://zanata.org/help/cli/cli-configuration/ to set up client.
> >>>> 4. Place the attached zanata.xml, in the root directory of
> >>>> repository 5. (Optional) Integrate "zanata push" and "zanata
> >>>> pull" to your buildscript
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> If you have any questions or need us to provide patches, feel
> >>>> free to contact the Zanata dev team.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>>
> >>> Hello Ding Yi,
> >>>
> >>> Personally, I do not think we should have these translation
> >>> projects enabled either in Transifex, nor in Zanata to avoid
> >>> contributions to an orphaned, dead
> >>> guide.
> >>>
> >>> The history and reasoning around orphaning FreeIPA upstream guide
> >>> can be found
> >>> here:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.freeipa.org/page/Upstream_User_Guide
> >>>
> >>> Martin
> >> Dear Martin,
> >>
> >> Just wondering should we migrate the FreeIPA  as well?
> >>
> >> It seems freeipa-python is still an active package.
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was already thinking about it too. I am not sure what you mean by
> > freeipa-python, it is just one subpackage of the FreeIPA project.
> > The FreeIPA Transifex translation project is:
> >
> > https://fedora.transifex.com/projects/p/freeipa/
> >
> > And yes, the FreeIPA project is quite active :-)
> >
> > Just like FESCo, I am personally open to migrating it to Zanata.
> > But I would like to have this proposal also agreed on the FreeIPA
> > upstream development list so that it is not decided behind
> > developers' backs. Can you (or whoever will help with transition)
> > please ask on the freeipa-devel mailing list with this proposal? Or
> > do you use different process?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Martin
> 
> Hi Martin
> 
> I am Noriko Mizumoto, FLSCo member.
> We, FLP (Fedora Localization Project), decided to move our interface
> from Transifex to Zanata.
> I have had the meetings with the leaders from Docs team, Web team as
> well FESCo [1] in 2014, and our decision has been supported by them.
> This means that All translators move to Zanata to work on Fedora
> related translation. All Fedora projects including Software,
> Documentation and Websites are requested to move to Zanata.
> 
> I understand that FreeIPA is Upstream and is not bound by this. But I
> like to encourage your project team to consider the move, since all
> Fedora projects as well many of Upstream projects will move to Zanata
> from Transifex. The detailed background can be found in the FESCo
> ticket [1]. The migration schedule can be found in the wiki page [2].
> The announcement has been made at devel-announce ML in Nov 2014,
> asking the developers' to take an action [3].
> 
> It is much appreciated that if you can coordinate the discussion with
> the freeipa-devel team.
> Once the decision is made, could you please advise me so that I will
> make sure to inform your project's decision to all Fedora translators.
> We are looking at to complete entire projects migration by February
> 2015, minimizing the impact to F22.
> 
> Any question, please feel free to ask.
> 
> [1]:https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1334
> [2]:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N_Move_To_Zanata
> [3]:https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2014-November/001467.html
> 
> Thanks
> 
> noriko
> FLSCo member
> Fedora Localization Project



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