How To Commit Translations via SVN

[Josep M. Ferrer]

El 21/5/25 a les 2:51, Kizito Birabwa ha escrit:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently the Luganda translation team. I have been given a developer account and so should be able to commit work into the svn repositories.
>
> I would like some help for I have lost my way at some point.
>
> I have the account with KDE Identity username and password (represented here as 'mykdeidentity' and 'mykdepasswd').
> The command:
>
> svn checkout --username mykdeidenty --password mykdepasswd svn://svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/l10n-kf6/lg/messages messages
> appeaed to work and created a working copy
>
> However, when I tried to commit the changes that I had made, the command:
>
> svn commit --username mykdeidenty  --password mykdepasswd
>
> failed after I had completed the commit message in the editor that opened. The failure message was:
>
> svn: E170001: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: E170001: Authorization failed
> svn: E170001: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:
> svn: E170001:    '/home/muwawa/nls/Ebikyusibwa/kde6/po/lg/messages/svn-commit.1.tmp'

It seems an issue with with your SVN account.

When you got your developer account, did you ask explicitly for an SVN 
account?

Best regards,

Josep M. Ferrer


>
> I have searched for guidance online but have become thouroughly confused. The steps up to getting a developer account with the right permissions are clear. Also there is a lot showing the commands that have failed for me. However the bits in the middle, between getting the account and executing those commands are what I am struggling to find.
>
> I hope someone can help and point me to some sort of step-by-step guide on how to set up committing to the kde svn.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kizito Birabwa
> KDE Luganda Team