Hello, > > For starters, I believe I mentioned the intent to automate in part > > the interaction with the Debian BTS. Does that count? > > Sometimes developer ask questions about submitted translations. > Someone has then to act as a proxy and file bug reports, one should > not file bug reports from fake mail addresses. See buildd admins > for instance, they file bugs with their name and email, not from > a bot. I did not mean that the system should send e-mails completely automatically. That would be done by a person (probably with a reviewer rights) who decides "OK, this new translation is in a good state", clicks a button on the web interface and the system generates a patch and files a l10n bug report on his behalf. > > > In most other large groups, translators have direct access to a > > > central CVS/SVN repository, but this will not happen in Debian. > > > > Could you explain this strong statement? Is it a matter of > > principle or just technical reasons? > > Because developers are mostly free to do what they want with their > packages. Sure, but I still don't see why that stops us from having a large central repository. If we are careful to pull changes from wherever we can and establish an efficient "pushing" process, the resulting system would provide just that, "direct access to a central repository" for all intents and purposes. -- Gintautas Miliauskas http://gintasm.blogspot.com
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