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Re: glibc 2.25 development --- 46 days to freeze.
On Sunday 20 November 2016 05:04 PM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> The translators themselves don't use tarballs, they only use PO files.
> The TP extracts the POT files from a tarball, remerges the existing PO
> files at the TP against them, and delivers these newer PO files to the
> translators. Translators thus only need to have access to email and
> an editor -- nothing else. You want them to have git installed? And
> to know how to handle it? Sure, quite a few will know. But it would
> break their workflow, and mine.
>
> So, if it's not too much trouble, please keep providing a URL of a
> snapshot tarball on alpha.gnu.org (or somewhere else) and send that
> URL to the coordinator at the TP, so that I can just run my two or
> three scripts, and all runs smoothly.
Sure, it is no trouble at all. I only wanted to know if there was
interest in tweaking this workflow further than just generating libc.pot
multiple times. I am perfectly fine adapting to the existing workflow.
Siddhesh