[Lxde-i18n] pootle.lxde.org maintenance and upgrade

[Jerome L. <je...@le...>]

Hi list

Over the past few months, the Pootle team has been working on the 2.7
release of Pootle. The release supercedes the broken 2.6 release.

We are finally at a point where the release is good enough for daily
use. We have started the process to upgrade some of our servers to it,
including the Mozilla and LibreOffice servers. LXDE will also receive
an upgrade.

There are lots of changes to be aware of. The full changelog is available here:
https://github.com/translate/pootle/blob/master/docs/releases/2.7.0.rst

One I would like to mention in advance is how committing to VCS works.
Pootle will no longer try to integrate with git by itself. Instead, we
will be able to run a script from the server to import or export
translation files from/to Pootle. We can set up periodic jobs to
commit reviewed units automatically at our leisure. I would like some
input on a model that we are all comfortable with, as this is up to me
to set it up.

This will get rid of merge conflicts and the recurring commit errors
we currently get in 2.6.

I have successfully tested a pootle upgrade on the LXDE database.
There's still a few kinks to be ironed out. I should be able to
upgrade the server within the next two weeks; wanted to give a bit of
advance notice.

Please hit me up with any questions or concerns.


Thanks, and apologies again for the long delay in this upgrade.

J. Leclanche