Re: Translations gone out for 2.16.

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos_odonell at mentor dot com>]

On 6/26/2012 6:20 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> 
>> Community,,
>>
>> I've checked in the libc.pot changes for trunk.
>>
>> I have tagged trunk with tag "glibc-2.16-tps" and uploaded a snapshot
>> of the tag for the translation team.
> 
> You appear to have put the snapshot on ftp.gnu.org.  That's a bad idea; it 
> might confuse people into thinking it's an actual release; there's no 
> glibc-2.16-tps.README explaining that 2.16-tps should not be used for 
> anything other than the translation project, and even if there were, 
> people would ignore it.  Either use the sourceware site, as for previous 
> snapshots, or alpha.gnu.org, as per 
> <http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Test-Releases.html>, but not 
> ftp.gnu.org.  Also follow the instructions there regarding versioning; 
> "tps" is not the right way to identify such versions.  (Make sure the 
> version numbers used are counted as older than the actual release's 
> version by the Translation Project; that may mean something like 
> 2.16-b20120625 if you don't use 2.15.90 version numbers, but check the 
> current TP instructions.)

(1) Upload snapshot to alpha.gnu.org.
 
Thank you for clarifying this. I had read through the various maintainer
manuals but it had not yet sunk in that we should use alpha.gnu.org for
the snapshot that the translation team should use.

I've adjusted the release procedure to document this:
http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release#Translations

I shall upload the 2.15.1 snapshot to alpha.gnu.org.

Note that it appears glibc has never uploaded anything to alpha.gnu.org,
so I may need to get gnu.org to create a directory for us on the server.

(2) Move glibc-2.16-tps* files from ftp.gnu.org to alpha.gnu.org?

I will attempt to move these files over alpha.gnu.org and update
the translation team to reference the new locaiton.

This should help avoid any problems.

(3) Where on sourceware.org were the snapshots placed?

You mention that sourceware.org was used for snapshots?

Is this documented somewhere?

(4) What version number to use?

I will document that we should use `X.Y.DATE' for the snapshots
that we send to alpha.gnu.org for TP to use. Following the
alternate recommendation from the maintainers guide.

The TP instructions say nothing about what version number to use,
they only say that translations will happen *once* for any given
version number.

Cheers,
Carlos.
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