[haiku-development] Re: Proposal for Haiku locale resouses reorganization.

  • From: Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:54:29 +0200

Axel Dörfler schrieb:
Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And the last point - separating localization resources out of the system sources will simplify the administrative actions for maintaining the localization resources branch - then you can let the write access to
corresponding parts of the SVN repository to people, that maintain
corresponding language. Currently it looks overcomplicated and I see, that
you have to work as "commit proxy" and resolve all conflict between
different "flavors" of translations.
Indeed - if we separate the translation catalogs from the code, it would be rather simple to allow more people write access to those (once we've switched to our new svn server). With a couple of more jam rules, it should even be possible to get jam to not only build the catalogs, but collect info about the state of the different languages/app translations. I think if we can get that to work, the need for a web application tracking the translations would be much less pressing.

Sounds like a good idea, I just wouldn't start a new repository on trunk level for this, but use a directory like src/data/{locale| catalogs} for this. Putting all translations in the application directory should definitely be avoided in the future.

+1 to using a folder under data/. That fits how it's already being used.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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