[Kbabel] Catalog manager feature

[Stanislav Visnovsky]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Andrea Rizzi wrote:

> > > I think it would be nice to implement inside the catalog manager a
> > > framework to assign a package to a translator (inside each team) using a
> > > remote server. We (italian team) have a framework like that on
> > > http://kde.gulp.linux.it but I think it would be better to do it inside
> > > the catalogmanager...
> >
> > Yes, it seems like a good idea. However, how should such a system work?
> > Should we support some of already available options? 
> 
> Now it is quite stupid, it is based on SQL+PHP and each time you ask something 
> the php script store in the SQL database a string containing the SQL query 
> that perform the required action and the name of who can execute that 
> string... then the guy you are asking to will receive an email that say 
> "check you requests on http://bla bla", he go there and execute (or not :-)) 
> the queries for each action requested.
> 
> I think this is not the way to go. Something more flexible is needed.
> The problem is that permission are based on specific actions on specific entry 
> of the database (e.g. the maintainer of a file can give it to another but 
> this action is authorized only on his files) so we cannot use mysql 
> permission system.

I have no idea how to organize the work using WWW servers :-( I'm 
used to be online and do the work directly.

> 
> >Are there any
> > besides custom, one-time implementations?
> Maybe...but I really do not know...
> 
> It would be nice also to change the "Markers" mechanism in kbabel so that 
> instead of a single type of marker one can put custom markers, right now the 
> framework I put on kde.gulp.linux.it is able to create your "file.marklist" 
> to load with the catalog manager but it would be better to export the whole 
> assignment (i.e. not only my files but each translator file).

Sorry, I don't understand this. Your idea is to set marklist file to 
direct the translator what she should care about, right? How could markers 
of different type help you?

Stanislav