How To Commit Translations via SVN

[Kizito Birabwa]

Hello again,

Additional information:

I already have ssh settings for committing to Qt Localization's Gerrit code review and they work - they have been working since last year and still do.

I am attempting to use the same key for Qt Localization and for KDE.

In my ~/.ssh/config file I have added settings for KDE's GitLab in addition to the Qt ones:
Host local-kde.org
Port 443
User same as my KDE Identity user name
PreferredAuthentications publickey
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/.ssh/id_ed25519

I have also added the svn keys to the known_hosts file. It now has these as well as the gitlab.local-kde.org key.

My ~/.ssh directory contains just one private key and its public counterpart and the files config and known_hosts. 

Regards,

Kizito Birabwa
KDE Luganda Team


On Friday, 23 May 2025 at 17:51:41 BST, Johnny Jazeix <jazeix at gmail.com> wrote: 





Hi;

>From https://community.kde.org/Infrastructure/Subversion/2020_Changes,
can you check if you have added your SSH keys on KDE's GitLab at
invent.kde.org ?
Then, it should work without having to provide your account when
checkouting or committing.

Ben added you in the list in
https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/repo-management/-/commit/a309e8e1eaaf121820365c6cb93a767fd5913dea
(kbiid account).

Cheers,

Johnny

Le ven. 23 mai 2025 à 18:39, Kizito Birabwa <kbirabwa at yahoo.co.uk> a écrit :
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>  Regards,
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>  Kizito Birabwa
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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').
> > The command:
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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'
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> 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
> account?
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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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