[Kde-scm-interest] Minutes from Today's KDE -> Git BoF

[Ian Monroe]

2009/7/8 Andrius Štikonas <stikonas at gmail.com>:
>> yeah.. it was mentioned and got lost in the noise I guess. or maybe it was
>> that the po files are staying in svn for however long the translators stay
>> there.
>> in any case, we have pre-commit hooks and they're important and the
>> gitorious
>
>
>> guys said they'll make it possible to add them.
>
> Git offers many benefits to translators too. Now ordinary translators do not
> have any commit access at all
> and they send their translations to maintainer and maintainer uploads large
> commits that are hard to review.
>
> With git it is possible to use workflow where every translator can commit to
> some git repository and later translation maintainer pushes translations
> into main repo. This workflow allows better review of translations by
> ordinary translators

Yea I agree, that makes a lot of sense, but given that translators had
more issues with the cvs->svn transition (according to conventional
wisdom) I really like the idea of translators moving or not moving to
Git on their own schedule and not one imposed by the likes of us.

Ian