Re: Translations was Re: [Gnumed-devel] Interest in GNUmed

[Jim Busser]

On 2009-10-26, at 6:06 PM, Jerzy Luszawski wrote:
> Why don't we move the CVS to Bazaar at Launchpad? Because of different
> licensing imposed by Launchpad?
> What is currently Launchpad used for, what cannot be done in  
> Savannah? If it
> is only the translation support, which is rather problematic - why not
> abandon it?
>
> The purpose of the above questions is to re-evaluate the possibility  
> to find
> one hosting platform, which could meet all our needs. Maybe we should
> consider SourceForge.net - it has both CVS, Bazaar and Git  
> available, plus
> many other features.

Not sure if any single hosting platform provides all that we want, see
        
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software

Launchpad
- packages releases for Ubuntu
- has a translation system (SF and Savannah don't)
- has nicer bug tracking than Savannah (don't make me go back)
- license requirement for BSD on the *translations* is acceptable to me
  (assumes we can dual-release our translation work as GPL)
- but only supports Git import, not Git fully

SourceForge
- is not ad-free (Savannah is)
- no longer runs on all-free software
- offers no advantage over Savannah?

Savannah
- already has its GNUmed project base info configured
- is also already hosting our email lists
- supports Git

... so I am thinking barring any unresolved license issue with Launchpad
--> use Savannah + Launchpad?

> > PROBLEMS?
> >
> > I am not sure why there are differences in the listings at
> >         https://translations.launchpad.net/gnumed/trunk/+translations
> >         https://translations.launchpad.net/gnumed/trunk/+pots/gnumed
> I don't know where the differences come from, but I can tell that  
> Kashubian
> and Silesian "languages" are dialects spoken in Poland, and they  
> should not
> be considered as translation targets. It must have been a joke to  
> create the
> corresponding .po files. Can someone remove them?

I don't have sufficient privileges to remove them (they reside inside  
the second in the pair of links above)

Not even sure of the origin of some of them... CVS at Savannah
        
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnumed/gnumed/client/locale/?root=gnumed&hideattic=1
contains only de, es, it, fr and pt_BR (brazilian portuguese)

Whereas the gnumed trunk at Launchpad
        https://translations.launchpad.net/gnumed/trunk/+translations
contains some new translations worked on as recently as August or  
September 2009... while it makes sense Gour could have had privileges  
to create the empty Croatian file, the creator/contributors to  
Norwegian Bokmal and Polish and Portuguese in Launchpad are not even  
members of the Launchpad GNUmed development team ???