Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fixed string in German translation that causes segfault.

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers ML <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fixed string in German translation that causes segfault.
Date: 2011-06-20 21:00:52
Message-ID: BANLkTin1sV0xgJqZrJ-D3Dk4qzv1aaisNg@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 22:44, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 22:20, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>>> A better way might be that translators simply work on a clone of the
>>> source repository, which is then merged (as in, git merge) at release
>>> time.  There are some issues with that to figure out, but it sounds like
>>> the obviously right thing, from an interface point of view.
>
>> I don't think we want to track every single translation update as
>> commits in the main repository - we don't do that for non-translation
>> stuff... If it's a squash-merge, that's a different thing, of
>> course...
>
>> Other than that, yes, keeping translations in git branches seems like
>> a good interface.
>
> My recollection is that the current setup was created mainly so that
> translators wouldn't need to be given commit privileges on the main
> repo.  Giving them a separate repo to work in might be all right, but
> of course whoever does the merges would have to be careful to only
> accept changes made to the .po files and not anything else.

That should be easy enough to script - have the system automatically
merge the branches requied with "--squash", and then make sure that no
non-.po files are modified.

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