help with cvs

[anthony baldwin]

anthony baldwin wrote:

> anthony baldwin wrote:
>
>> Hi,,
>>
>> I´m new.
>> Signed up at the sign up and gave my key, etc.
>> Trying to access the cvs, but I have absolutely no experience with 
>> cvs whatever (except the local drugstore chain).
>> So I followed the instructions on the page indicated 
>> (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2003-December/msg00001.html). 
>>
>> And then saw a long list of .po files go by in my terminal.
>> But I haven´t the slightest idea what to do beyond that....
>> and the list was so long and went by so fast...
>>
>> Furthermore, I´ve never worked with po files, either.  I yummed some 
>> gui tools for that, so, perhaps I´ll figure that out.
>> I am an experienced translator (and interpreter), but have not worked 
>> with software localization at all (trying to cut my
>> teeth here, really, to help my favorite OS, AND gain valuable 
>> experience...)
>> I´ve been using Linux since RH7.0 and Fedora since FC1, but am 
>> nothing like a linux guru/expert, by any means.
>>
>> I downloaded some gui CVS tools, too.  I have cervisia and lincvs.
>> Maybe someone could clue me in on their use or something?
>> I really have no comprehension of cvs at all....
>> truly clueless....
>>
>> tony
>>
> I think I´m following the directions, but not getting 
> anywhere...(where XXXX is, I am writing the password given me).
>
> [tony at localhost ~]$ export 
> CVSROOT=:ext:abaldwin:XXXX at i18n.redhat.com:/usr/local/CVS
> [tony at localhost ~]$ cvs -z9 co translate
> cvs checkout: CVSROOT password specification is only valid for
> cvs checkout: pserver connection method.
> cvs [checkout aborted]: Bad CVSROOT: 
> `:ext:abaldwin:4534 at i18n.redhat.com:/usr/local/CVS'.
> [tony at localhost ~]$
>
>
> If I try to use cervisia or lincvs, it keeps asking me for a module, 
> and I don´t know what to give it.
>
> tony
>
Nope...
Seems I´ve gotten in, now, to 
`:ext:abaldwin:4534 at i18n.redhat.com:/usr/local/CVS
Although there appears to be little or nothing that needs work for my 
language pair.
(I speak French and Spanish, in addition to English and Portuguese-BR, 
but I would
only be comfortable translating to PT-BR, since it´s really my second 
language, in which I
am bilingual).


I´m more interested in translating documentation, however, and I can´t 
seem to get into

|:ext:/|username|/@cvs.fedora.redhat.com:/cvs/docs
with the username and password I was given.
Do I need to create a different account somewhere to assist with Fedora Documentation translation?

tony
|



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