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@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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