[Xfce-i18n] Quick HOWTO use your SVN access

[Auke Kok]

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:

>Jean-François Wauthy schreef:
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>>Hi all,
>>
>>This mail is targeted to translators with svn access, this explain them
>>how to get the svn tree and how to commit changes.
>>
>>First you have to checkout the svn tree, either you checkout each module
>>branch and trunk manually in a directory (and won't be able to run svn
>>commit or svn up at the their root), either you checkout the tree not
>>recursively, it's really long to do so i wrote some scripts[1] to make
>>it for you. Just run one of the checkout script in an empty dir to get a
>>new xfce svn tree (the checkout-po-only script, only fetches the po-dirs
>>if you haven't guessed) and the corresponding update script to update
>>your local working copy of the tree. I suggest you to avoid to 'svn
>>update' directly in the tree root because it'll download all the svn
>>tree (around 5GB) but you may use the command localy in a branch dir
>>(i.e. : xfprint/branches/xfce_4_2 or xfprint/trunk) in any other place
>>it'll try to get the whole tree and will create new directories.
>>
>> 1. http://www.xfce.org/~pollux/for_translators/
>>
>>When you have your local copy do whatever you want into as long as you
>>don't execute 'svn commit' you don't propagate your modifications on the
>>Xfce server.
>>
>>Once your translations are ready to be committed, run 'svn commit'
>>either in the directory where the modified translations are or in the
>>root dir if you modified translations in several modules (the advantage
>>of commiting all of them in a revision is the fact it's easier to revert
>>changes and to find them). The 'svn commit' should open you favorite
>>editor (set in $EDITOR env variable) and ask you a commit message
>>describing your changes (you can directly give the commit message trough
>>the -m parameter); save your message and exit your editor, svn will now
>>propagate your changes in the svn repository. If no error shows up, it's
>>done.
>>
>>You can monitor the status of each languages and modules here[2]
>>
>> 2. http://www.xfce.org/~kelnos/i18n/
>>
>>If you have any question don't hesitate to ask (either by mail or on
>>IRC : freenode/#xfce my nickname is p0llux). A wiki to host all
>>translations FAQ, HOWTO,... will be set up soon.
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>Hmm, I was wondering if we could use something like that for the English 
>documentation as well. While the docbook setup works fine, it doesn't 
>exactly make it easy for people to start contributing.
>
>On the other hand we do link to xfcewiki.org and that only is used for 
>feature requests (which is not the best place for it) and viagra spam, 
>so we may just not be doing enough to make it easy for people to contribute.
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perhaps time to start from 0 and setup a wiki.xfce.org for all this sort
of things?

sofar