On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 9:24 AM Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote:
> As you may know, translations for apps don't live in the same place as the > code for the apps themselves. > > This greatly benefits translators but is not awesome for the release > management > side of things since it means that for each release we need to not forget > to > copy the appropriate files to the appropriate place, makes tagging > somewhat > harder, etc. > > For a while now we have been running an "experimental" copy-po-qm-docbook- > back-to-repository in a number of "select" repositories and it seems to > have > worked quite well, you can seem one example in > https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/alligator/-/commits/master/po > > The idea is to enable this for all repositories. > > This is a heads up, as a developer there's nothing you need to do, at most > remove the po/ folder from .gitignore if for some reason it is there. > > If you're a packager you will need to make sure your scripts don't try to > copy > po/qm/docbook files anymore when doing a release once this is activated. > > My plan would be to enable this scripts over Akademy so we have the high > bandwidth there to fix things if needed. > > Opinions? Comments? > I'm very happy to see this change finally start to roll out - being something that was last discussed back in MIlian I believe! Looking forward to it rolling out as it will mean we can start including translations in nightly builds and will no longer have such a high release-day load on our systems. > Cheers, > Albert > > > Cheers, Ben
