On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Shaun McCance <sha...@gnome.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 13:34 +0200, Chusslove Illich wrote: >> > 4) Due to workflow, we don't have a baseline commit to reference. >> > [...] >> > (4) is a serious problem. git is really smart, and has a number of merge >> > strategies that I can only describe as "magic". But they don't work if you >> > bypass version control. >> >> For this I have no practical idea how to solve. Other than locking workflow >> being the norm, translators are frequently pointed to web-based solutions >> instead of version control (so that they don't get scared off by the >> process). Then, it is not unusual for regular translators not to have commit >> access, which would extremely odd for regular programmers (or documenters, >> right?). > > The beauty of git is that everybody can commit, even if they can't > push their changes to git.gnome.org. We start docs people off using > git very early. We have them commit their changes as normal and send > git patches to somebody with an account on gnome.org. > > I know learning version control first is a hurdle (and git especially > so), but I also think it's a valuable skill that will save you time > and again going forward. And with distributed version control, we're > no longer tied to who has an account where to get those benefits. >
I would suggest that going to Pootle is a good step short of moving to a git workflow and far more friendly to locaiizers. I run a substantial Pootle instance, not quite as Gnome, perhaps, but still hosting tens of thousands of words and strings on over 100 languages. cjl cjl _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
