Re: [translations] Re: Working repo

[Jean-Charles Malahieude <lilyfan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Le 04/03/2021 à 18:55, Jonas Hahnfeld a écrit :
> [...]
>
> MRs to the translation branch won't work because there are no CI
> pipelines defined, but I've configured GitLab to require that prior to
> merging. So far, we've mostly continued with the practice that
> translators have access to the repository and just push the translation
> branch.
> Now that we have the MR system fleshed out and sufficiently fast
> runners, I think it might be time to retire the translation branch:
> Translators would open regular MRs that are merged to master, but
> outside of the countdown process. That would also allow "outside"
> contributors to work on the translation more easily (cf. !668).

Even if outside the countdown process, these MR should IMHO still be 
reviewed or specifically "tagged" and maybe translators prefix their own 
branch with Doc-LL when pending for a while (it took me more than a week 
for polishing !671). The CG will have to be adapted.


> The more immediate problem right now is that Savannah is ahead of
> GitLab, so once somebody pushes to GitLab the synchronization will fail
> because branches cannot be force-pushed to Savannah. Given the issue
> with overlong lines, maybe it's best to reset Savannah's translation
> branch to the commit on GitLab? I can do this manually if nobody
> disagrees.

Please go ahead.

Cheers,
--
Jean-Charles