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

[Leo Franchi]

On 9 Jul 2009, at 02:08, Ian Monroe wrote:

> 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.

The translators have stated their complete non-desire to deal with  
switching to Git right now---our goal is to make this as faultless a  
transition as possible, and this includes not making the translators  
want to kill us. So we're not going to change their workflow  
underneath their feet :)

leo

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