Hoi,
As it is, messages are entered by translators and with some regularity the
messages are bundled and a "sanity check" is applied to the messages before
they are committed to SVN. Not all messages are necessarily committed to the
SVN and therefore an automatic update to SVN is not a sane thing to do. Of
real importance is the communication between translators and developers on
#mediawiki-i18n <irc://irc.freenode.net/mediawiki-i18n>, it is not only
first line support that is discussed but also how to implement grammatical
support for specific languages or language groups.
It is correct that a lot of localisation is happening at the moment. When
you look at the statistics, there is room for a lot more localisation
because there is still a lot of "red" to be seen. All these commits are
welcome because this is what makes MediaWiki usable for people that do not
read English.
When you look at the changes that are a consequence of the localisation,
they are in two parts. There are changes to the messages themselves as a
consequence of the improving implementation of localisation technology and
there are the localisations themselves. When you want to have the
localisations filtered, the way commits to SVN are reported has to change.
It should not mean that the localisations are no longer reported because
some people, myself included, are interested in this.
Thanks,
GerardM
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Group_statistics
Thanks,
GerardM
On Jan 7, 2008 4:49 PM, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Simetrical wrote:
On 1/5/08, Mark Clements wrote:
> To avoid too many edit conflicts, an extension that automatically
commits
> changes in the other direction (from the wiki
into SVN at point of
save)
would be
a good solution (though it would need to avoid getting into a
loop!).
I vote for this. Give BetaWiki its own SVN account and use it
automatically. That would make it much easier to filter out the flood
of localization-only commits, for those who want to (lately they seem
to be dominating the software changes).
Good idea. But maybe delay a bit the commit (about 5 minutes) so if the
translator changes again the message it doesn't flood the svn commits?
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