Copying po/docbook files to repositories nightly

[Nate Graham]

Sounds like a great idea to me!

Nate


On 9/2/22 15:24, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> As you may know, translations for apps don't live in the same place as the
> code for the apps themselves.
> 
> This greatly benefits translators but is not awesome for the release management
> side of things since it means that for each release we need to not forget to
> copy the appropriate files to the appropriate place, makes tagging somewhat
> harder, etc.
> 
> For a while now we have been running an "experimental" copy-po-qm-docbook-
> back-to-repository in a number of "select" repositories and it seems to have
> worked quite well, you can seem one example in
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/alligator/-/commits/master/po
> 
> The idea is to enable this for all repositories.
> 
> This is a heads up, as a developer there's nothing you need to do, at most
> remove the po/ folder from .gitignore if for some reason it is there.
> 
> If you're a packager you will need to make sure your scripts don't try to copy
> po/qm/docbook files anymore when doing a release once this is activated.
> 
> My plan would be to enable this scripts over Akademy so we have the high
> bandwidth there to fix things if needed.
> 
> Opinions? Comments?
> 
> Cheers,
>    Albert
> 
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