[publican-list] [Fwd: Re: r1722 - in trunk/publican-fedora: . .tx]

Tue Feb 22 22:16:24 UTC 2011

I'm just curious: doesn't nixing transifex.net content effectively shut down translations? Or does it simply make it more difficult on Nick and Rudi but not change the ultimate process (meaning, the translations are still done on tx.net)? 

I'm not familiar with the Fedora translation process. What's the end result of this? 

Deon 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Jeff Fearn" <jfearn at redhat.com> 
To: "Publican discussions" <publican-list at redhat.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 3:57:16 PM 
Subject: Re: [publican-list] [Fwd: Re: r1722 - in trunk/publican-fedora: . .tx] 

Just to clue people in on what has actually happened. 

Fedora infrastructure has been running an instance of Transifex for some 
time. This installation has been plagued by terrible performance and an 
almost complete inability to maintain or upgrade it. AIUI almost all of 
these issues are related to the software itself. 

Travel forward to recent times when Fedora decided not to host an 
instance anymore, because it's unmaintainable, and so decided to migrate 
hosted applications without going to the rather obvious step of asking 
the associated projects if it was OK to migrate them to a commercial 
entities site. 

Now I for one am rather hesitant to move to a hosted commercial instance 
run by people who make software that a team of people can't update or 
maintain. I'm double hesitant when the whole migration process was done 
without public consultation with the projects themselves. 

At this point I'm willing to wield my Project Leaders Veto on accepting 
transifex.net content. Giving commercial entities rights over our name 
and sources is a serious step, doing it without due consideration is 
rather foolish, and doing it on other peoples behalf is morally 
offensive and pretty much illegal. 

Cheers, Jeff. 

On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 06:13 -0600, Nick Bebout wrote: 
> Per jfearn's request, forwarding this to publican-list. 
> 
> Nick 
> ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- 
> Subject: Re: r1722 - in trunk/publican-fedora: . .tx 
> From:    "Nick Bebout" <nick at bebout.net> 
> Date:    Tue, February 22, 2011 6:07 am 
> To:      "jfearn at redhat.com" <jfearn at redhat.com> 
> Cc:      "nb at fedoraproject.org" <nb at fedoraproject.org> 
>          "Ruediger Landmann" <rlandman at redhat.com> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> Fedora is now doing translations through transifex.net, instead of running 
> our own transifex instance.  The .tx/config are what maps "resources" in 
> the transifex site to the pot and po's in the source repository.  For what 
> it's worth, .tx/config would be needed, even if Fedora upgraded our 
> current transifex to 1.0 or higher.  The only difference would be the URL 
> at the top of the file. (the way I understand it is Fedora provides 
> translations for both publican and publican-fedora, but please correct me 
> if that is not true.) 
> 
> We can live without having the .tx/config file stored in svn, but it'll be 
> harder because rudi and I (or whoever) will have to make our own copy (or 
> send each other a copy) before updating the pot on tx.net or pulling the 
> updated po's to update in svn. 
> 
> I would request you allow the .tx/config files to be stored in svn again. 
> 
> Nick 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone 
> 
> On Feb 21, 2011, at 23:41, Jeff Fearn <jfearn at redhat.com> wrote: 
> 
> > I am not happy with having content for commercial enterprises in the 
> > Publican repository. Doing so without discussing this on the Publican 
> > list is unacceptable, please start a discussion now. 
> > 
> > Cheers, Jeff. 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 04:12 +0000, nb at fedoraproject.org wrote: 
> >> Author: nb 
> >> Date: 2011-02-22 04:12:36 +0000 (Tue, 22 Feb 2011) 
> >> New Revision: 1722 
> >> 
> >> Added: 
> >>   trunk/publican-fedora/.tx/ 
> >>   trunk/publican-fedora/.tx/config 
> >> Log: 
> >> Add publican-fedora/.tx/config 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Added: trunk/publican-fedora/.tx/config 
> >> =================================================================== 
> >> --- trunk/publican-fedora/.tx/config                            (rev 0) 
> >> +++ trunk/publican-fedora/.tx/config    2011-02-22 04:12:36 UTC (rev 1722) 
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ 
> >> +[main] 
> >> +host = https://www.transifex.net 
> >> + 
> >> +[publican-fedora.Feedback] 
> >> +file_filter = <lang>/Feedback.po 
> >> +source_file = pot/Feedback.pot 
> >> +source_lang = en 
> >> + 
> >> +[publican-fedora.Logos] 
> >> +file_filter = <lang>/Logos.po 
> >> +source_file = pot/Logos.pot 
> >> +source_lang = en 
> >> + 
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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