How To Commit Translations via SVN

[Josep M. Ferrer]

El 23/5/25 a les 18:38, Kizito Birabwa ha escrit:
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>   Regards,
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>   Kizito Birabwa

Apart from following Johnny's advice, I think you need to use the 
svn+ssh protocol, as explained here:

https://community.kde.org/Infrastructure/Subversion#Checking_out_and_updating

Hope this helps.

Josep M. Ferrer


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> On Friday, 23 May 2025 at 13:38:16 BST, Josep M. Ferrer<txemaq at saragata.net> wrote:
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> El 21/5/25 a les 2:51, Kizito Birabwa ha escrit:
>> Hello,
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>> 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.
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>> I would like some help for I have lost my way at some point.
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>> I have the account with KDE Identity username and password (represented here as 'mykdeidentity' and 'mykdepasswd').
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>> 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
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>> However, when I tried to commit the changes that I had made, the command:
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>> svn commit --username mykdeidenty  --password mykdepasswd
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>> failed after I had completed the commit message in the editor that opened. The failure message was:
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>> 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.
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> When you got your developer account, did you ask explicitly for an SVN
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> Best regards,
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> Josep M. Ferrer
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Regards,
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>> Kizito Birabwa
>> KDE Luganda Team
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