Re: Proposal to change l10n system (WAS: DDTSS is down)

2011-01-30 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Eric, On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 03:22:47PM +0100, Eric Spreen wrote: > On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 07:03 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > i18n.debian.net is an attempt for this..:-) > > > > For instance, there is something running for months, even years, that > > imports debconf translations into

Re: Proposal to change l10n system (WAS: DDTSS is down)

2011-01-29 Thread Eric Spreen
On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 07:03 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > i18n.debian.net is an attempt for this..:-) > > For instance, there is something running for months, even years, that > imports debconf translations into Pootle. This has an SVN repo as > backend and works fairly well. I could announce

Re: Proposal to change l10n system (WAS: DDTSS is down)

2011-01-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 28 January 2011 00:32, Eric Spreen wrote: > Considering the implementation of the DDTSS, I think that a few things > could be improved. First of all I don't think that web interfaces are > the best way to provide access to a system that uses very much different > encodings, since standard HTML

Re: Proposal to change l10n system (WAS: DDTSS is down)

2011-01-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 28 ian 11, 07:03:59, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Eric Spreen (eris...@gmail.com): > > > Therefore, I would like to propose to create a centralized system for > > all translation projects that takes away the pain of all the backend > > submission systems. > > > i18n.debian.net is an

Re: Proposal to change l10n system (WAS: DDTSS is down)

2011-01-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Eric Spreen (eris...@gmail.com): > Therefore, I would like to propose to create a centralized system for > all translation projects that takes away the pain of all the backend > submission systems. i18n.debian.net is an attempt for this..:-) For instance, there is something running for

Re: Proposal to change l10n system (WAS: DDTSS is down)

2011-01-27 Thread Eric Spreen
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 13:57 +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > The DDTSS isn't great. It was written by me as an alternative for the > mail interface. It wasn't really designed for this sort of usage. As > for whether efforts were lost, it's hard to say. What generally > happens is that a new k

Re: Proposal to change l10n system (WAS: DDTSS is down)

2011-01-27 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Martin Bagge / brother wrote: > With regards to DDTSS/DDTP I think there must be something done in the > foreseeable future. As far as I can tell there are unacceptable > maintenance tasks that rely on some individuals. And adding that the > system in some cases br

Re: Proposal to change l10n system (WAS: DDTSS is down)

2011-01-27 Thread Martin Bagge / brother
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-27 12:31, Eric Spreen wrote: > However, I strongly feel that there are several problems with the system > that is currently being used. For example, DDTSS going down big time > every now and then, a very steep learning curve for new transl

Proposal to change l10n system (WAS: DDTSS is down)

2011-01-27 Thread Eric Spreen
Hello i18n people, First of all, I'd like to say that I am aware I am not very experienced with i18n (of course I have done my fair share of debconf and regular po translations), so I may not be the right person to make this proposal. However, I strongly feel that there are several problems with