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Re: Firefox 2.0



Nadim,


I think they should be kept.

-It's historical evidence, right in Arabeyes CVS servers, of the work
done by arabeyes to localise OSS projects. The issue of keeping the
files goes beyond the mere need of their existence on some cvs servers
be it ours or the mothership's. It's respecful gesture to the
translators.
-Unless really tight on space, I don't think it is an issue, text
packs really well, I have FF 2.0, Gnome and the Technical dictionary
and that's all a mere 25MB.

Djihed


On 28/07/06, Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
--- Djihed Afifi <djihedlists at googlemail dot com> wrote:
> I would like to know how arabeyes tends to organise its CVS. From my
> understanding of other OSS projects, they don't prune old version as
> soon as a new version is out. They can reside freely on the cvs server
> as long as enough space/resources are there.
>
> Is it arabeyes policy to delete old versions of translations when new
> versions are out?

There isn't a policy per-se but that has been the practice of previous
project coordinators and maintainers (those of you reading this, do
please speak up).  The point that was made was that once the data is
uploaded to the mothership there really isn't a need to keep the old
data around (post patching-in the new HEAD files of course).  Keep in
mind that the old files should be available on the mothership's
repository on a per release basis (check KDE's or Gnome's repositories)
which further notes the lack of necessity on our part to keep those
submitted files around.

We're not hurting for disk space just yet but if every project started
keeping its old files we will rather soon.

Salam.

 - Nadim


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