Re: [translate-pootle] Wordforge

[David Fraser <davidf@sjsoft.com>]

Gintautas Miliauskas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I hope you don't mind me cross-posting to debian-i18n and
> translate-pootle; the material concerns both groups.
>
> unfortunately I am still busy with university stuff, I have a few exams
> in the coming few days, and a couple more later on, but sun's already
> shining through the clouds.
>
> We had a successful meeting with Aigars, my SoC supervisor from Debian
> last weekend in Riga (I was lucky with the weather!). I think the two
> most important points Aigars outlined were that:
>
> a) I have a lot of freedom on how to approach the project
> b) it's a good idea to work on pootle in order to get their
> developers ;)
>
> We discussed the separation of pootle's backend from the frontend as a
> viable short-term goal.  We also talked about many more things, from
> available technologies to architectural issues.
>
> Aigars promised me Subversion access to pootle's repository where I
> could create a branch and work on it.  While I don't yet have code to
> commit, I have been trying to get the gist of what you have and I would
> like to commit some documentation notes on the current implementation.
>
> It would also help to learn of the plans of the other pootle developers:
> if a major architectural restructurisation is underway, that would
> quickly render my branch obsolete. I saw a roadmap on the Wordforge
> website. Are things moving in Pootle as fast as expected?  Aigars
> mentioned some sort of a new push with extensive class hierarchy
> charts, but I could not find them on the website.  Could anyone point
> me in the right direction?
>
> Sorry for the slow start, but I figure I'll have the entire summer for
> this after I'm done with those dastardly exams.
>   
Friedel has already responded to most of this, my main thing to add
would be to join us in #pootle on irc.freenode.org if possible when you
get going - often initial issues can be far more quickly sorted out
there. Otherwise email will be fine

Looking forward to working with you!
David