[Mageia-i18n] I need someone to fix this …

[Olav Dahlum]

On 08/06/11 08:54, Oliver Burger wrote:
> Olav Dahlum <odahlum at broadpark.no> schrieb am 08.06.2011
>> On http://mageia.org/nb/1/next/, I have accidentally left "we" and
>> written the actual translation after the tag. Are you able to fix
>> that for me?
> I will commit those changes.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
>> It would probably be much wiser to devise a system where
>> maintainers commit changes to their own branch in www/trunk
>> directly. This will of course take the load of Romain and other
>> people currently doing this work.
> The problem is, there is no such thing as one maintainer's own branch. 
> The translations of a single website are put into one huge array 
> containing all languages.
> I know, some translators wouldn't have a problem with working inside 
> that system (e.g. knowing how to handle conflicts in svn that might 
> arise, when several people are working on the same files), but I also 
> know, that we have quite some people being not as comfortable with svn 
> so we decided to keep the actual commiting to a few people (aka Romain 
> and me).
> 
> But you are right. It would be much easier if this wouldn't have to be 
> handled by Romain and me (and it would take the middleman out of the 
> equation who may or may not be available due to other things).
> 
> Web team is discussing other solutions for the website (including its 
> translation), but until we reach another decision, we have to work 
> with what we got.
> Being in the comfortable position of being i18n leader and web 
> substitute, I will of course look after the coming website solution 
> being i18n friendly.
> 
> Oliver
> 

I know, it's technically feasible, just not very user friendly for some.

Yes, I noticed the discussion about whether we should just use a stock
solution like Joomla, Drupal (7?), etc, to avoid spending too much time
on this.

Olav