Re: [translate-pootle] transfer .po files

[Chris L. <cjl...@gm...>]

Sorry, meant to include this wiki page, which might give you some
ideas of how we do things (no guarantee it is "best practices", but
"it works for us".

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Service/translate

cjl

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Chris Leonard <cjl...@gm...> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Mason Leung <rhy...@gm...> wrote:
>> We use git for code, the instruction on
>> http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/version_control uses svn, and
>> we don't have that install.  Is there a way to pull this using git?
>
> Absolutely, Sugar Labs (and at least a few other Pootle users) employ
> a git as backend.  Our is technically Gitorious, I think, but it is
> close enough.
>
> We employ some fairly simple scripts run as cron jobs that do things
> like check the git repo for updated strings and pulls new string that
> have been entered, we have another one that generate language packs
> nightly for testing, etc. etc.
>
> Maybe looking at those will give you a few ideas.
>
> http://git.sugarlabs.org/pootle-helpers
>
> I'm nott really a git guru, but one of my colleqageus wrote up this
> documetnation on how we maintain the interactions between our Pootle
> instance and our git repo.  Agian, maybe it will give you some ideas.
>
> If you still have questions after reading that stuff, I may or may not
> be able to answer them myself, but perhaps someone else on this list
> can, or I can try to pass it along to my git guru, who is a busy guy
> and currently bouncing around Peru from village to village as part of
> an effort we are collaborating on.
>
> I hope this is helpful, I am sure you can get where you want with a
> git back-end.
>
> cjl
> Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/