A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap [LWN.net]

A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

Posted Apr 5, 2010 0:41 UTC (Mon) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap by fperrin
Parent article: A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

I read through that presentation, and it mostly makes the point that the migration wasn't easy. That's something you would expect.

For instance, why would you automatically convert the svn:ignore property to a per-directory .gitignore? You can do that (.gitignore can be on every directory, but it can be on every directory above it).

It does not really state the other points that he attempted to show.

And maybe translators just don't need to deal with the version-control system directly. If translators didn't check-out the whole application, they probably never really used it as proper version control: they never really tested their translation with the latest "SVN build". So maybe translators should switch to something like Transifex.

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A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

Posted Apr 6, 2010 16:40 UTC (Tue) by Spudd86 (guest, #51683) [Link]

"So maybe translators should switch to something like Transifex."

This seems to be exactly what they are doing. (I read planet Gnome, I vaguely recall some mentions of new tools for translators and workflow improvements for them, I don't recall clearly because I don't particularly care about translation workflows)