Marcin Cieslak schrieb:
I think we will be better of with flat files (for example in PHP or java
properties format or maybe) versioned in some version control, similary
as MediaWiki is doing.
The problem is that each user has his/her own svn repo. Pushing messages to each
would be rather annoying, especially with respect to access management (whos
account would be used?...)
Just providing the files and letting people "pull" them into their repo is
going
to be slow. Betawiki is *very* interested in getting translations live *fast*.
Waiting a month or so before your translation goes live is demotivating (i have
let translators wait in the past too. sorry guys).
And Betawiki can already export to PHP, Java, gettext, etc
PHP tools like WikiSense prefer PHP format.
Well, I could easily change that. And I would. Because I know I often have other
things on my mind then updating translations. So having it automated would be
very nice to me.
The reason for this is that you need to be able to understand message
history - you need to know which messages have been added and which
messages have been changed since the translation, to flag the modified
existing messages on the Wiki. Ability to make diffs is very helpful,
and doing this with database is a bit cumbersome.
Hm... I suppose the "master" copy of the messages in the "primary"
language
should indeed be maintained by the author, as a flat file in the repository. But
the "live" messages could be pulled from a db that is updated automatically.
Maybe from there they could be exported again into the tools.
Thinking about it, it seems like part of betawiki being mirrored on the
toolserver -- with the live messages in the db, and the ability to export to
files and check them into the repo. Perhaps we should think of it this way.
On the other hand, we don't really need database
for this, given that
amount of writes will be much less than the amount of reads.
The main argument for a database is the easy of syncing with betawiki.
An automated way to move commit messages from, say,
SVN, to Betawiki
that explain why such message has been added would be nice.
Is Fuzzybot able to import svn commit messages in the MessagesEn.php to
Betawiki?
Would be nice, but I'm more worried about getting new translations from betawiki
into a toolserver svn.
-- daniel