[Fedora-trans-ar] Do we have any Web Developers within?

[sabdelg at redhat.com]

Just occurred to me that you may already have started doing things!
If you are, just make to include the functionalities, don't redo
anything to match what I am suggesting :)

Sherif


Quoting sabdelg at redhat.com:

> Maha,
>   Good start. Here is my comments:
>
> We can have one screen, yet what he/she can do within the screen is 
> different.
> So basically, based on user level (hence, you need to authenticate users)
> you can have three access levels:
>
> - Guest, can view browser, editing is not avilable for him.
> - Contributor, he will be allowed to "edit", and "submit" changes,
>  mark strings "fuzzy" or remove "fuzzy" marks" .. His entries should 
> be kept in
>  different "proposed" table till a Maintainer "approve" it and move it to
> "current"
>  table.
>
> - Maintainer, he will be view current approved, and "proposed" changes, hence
>  he can "approve" and "merge" or "discard" the new "proposed" change 
> making it
> "current"
>  or send it to "trash"
>
> - System Admin Screen: Maintaince tasks, like populate DB with data 
> from files,
>  backup db, dump DB, restore, ..etc.
>
>  Functionality will be allowed to him:
>
>  a. Parse the files on server (that will be on same server your code will run
> on),
>     and "insert" these parsed files into the "DB". This will be 
> needed at start
>     time to "take from files into DB", also will be needed if we need a fresh
>     copy from the files on disk to DB in case something happened and 
> we need to
>     load files again.
>
>  b. Compile or generate "PO" file again from DB and store it to file in hard
> disk,
>     or update the hard copy so we can later take this and sync it 
> back to CVS.
>
>  So basically ability per file to load from the copy on the hard, or generate
>  and compose the file from the DB back to the hard.
>
>  c. Backup DB and Restor DB from SQL files , add users, remove users, change
> passwords
>     for users ..etc. Create translation project, define file to maintain, and
> locations.
>
> Both Contributor and Maintainer views should be able to ask for "show all the
> file", or "show me fuzzy" only or "show untranslated". Maintainer should be
> able to also show "show submited"
> strings waiting for approval so he can see these strings on one place.
>
> To do that , you will need in your table to have a flag describe the state of
> each
> string.
>
> And forget about sync`ing with CVS, and CVS commands. As long as it 
> save files
> in a file
> somewhere we can define. Admin can checkout files, use your JAVA to 
> manipulate
> files,
> then he can check in files manualy later. Or an automated task to do 
> that can be
> done later.
>
> How does that sound ? Too much, sa7 ? :)) LOL I think it would be the perfect
> product that you can sell for anyone afterwords to help them translate or
> contribute in open source ;-)
>
> Sherif
>
>
>
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