Re: (forw) Google Summer of Code 2007 - mentors and project ideas wanted

[Gasper Zejn <zejn@owca.info>]

Dne nedelja 18 marec 2007 23:16 je Steve McIntyre napisal(a):
> In article <[🔎] 20070318181105.GA27462@pluto.sol.de> you write:
> >On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 05:36:52PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >> It's fairly heavily frowned upon; it might mean that different
> >> architectures get different translations (for example), and we really
> >> don't want that happening.
> >
> >That's a very good argument. But there are nevertheless solutions to
> >this: It would be possible to use the package version as argument to the
> >helper script. The first call during a package build on a architecture
> >could save the translation files <==> package version mapping and
> >further requests return the saved files.
>
> Hmmm, maybe.
>
> >Do you have other arguments? I think a way to automate translation
> >updates could simplify the necessary steps for maintainers which is a
> >good thing ...
>
> Agreed, but there are issues that need thinking through. Maybe an
> extra debhelper command that could be run *manually* by the maintainer
> before running the build would be best.
>
> I've heard suggestions in the past that a better way of handling
> translations would be to somehow link them into packages later on
> after they're put into the archive. But there are issues with that
> too, and I don't think it has got anywhere beyond the idea stage.

What about giving the translators those 	10 days that packages need to be in 
the archive to propagate to testing? At the time of propagation to testing, a 
system would fetch translations and add them to package.


Gasper Zejn