On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:26:32PM +0100, Djihed Afifi wrote: > >I'm not sure about the current state of pootle. but consider the following > >scenario: > >Person X decided to take the po file and translated outside pootle (It's > >possible) I > >can assume that we will have contributors without a permanent connection. > >How are we going > >to handle this situation ? > > Locking? A suggestion based mechanism? (Not sure pootle have developed > that yet). > > I'm sure there are a lot of other issues surrounding pootle and web > translation in general. That's where a test-drive will come handy. The > issues will be discovered by trial. We might end up fixing a lot of > them ourselves or altering our translation process to avoid the rough > edges. I tried installing pootle on my 128M equipped VPS. I imported gnome and the server wasn't able to cope with that. I was planning to provide a test drive but I can't know. Should we set up a test drive on Arabeyes ? Can the Arabeyes server handle this ? > >I was a bit busy the last few weeks (And probably the next few months). > >Sorry for not > >noticing the discussion. > > > >Why not have a web interface so people can suggest terms ? > >I can cook a simple thing with drupal in 5 minutes!! > > That was also suggested in the thread. Chahibi noted that pootle et al > are not mature enough to handle dicsussions/suggestions effectively. > Personally, I believe we need a Wiki, a MediaWiki instance will serve > right as temporary workaround. > > I'll colunteer to maintain it if needed, and migrate the old wiki's > contents. > > Pootle needs dicussions, and a voting system with a clear interface > for admins/maintainers. If they are developed, we're set. In that case, I'd go for drupal and write a module and that's it. Let's not talk about this now. One can't solve all the problems at once! -- GNU/Linux registered user #224950 Proud Egyptian GNU/Linux User Group <www.eglug.org> Member. Life powered by Debian, Homepage: www.foolab.org -- Don't send me any attachment in Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) format please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Preferable attachments: .PDF, .HTML, .TXT Thanx for adding this text to Your signature
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