lots of good ideas, lots of lack of time.... / Re: Debian flyers: ftp, packaging, git?

[Joost van Baal-Ilić]

Hi!

On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 12:58:46PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 06:55 +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> >On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 08:56:26AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> >> It looks like alioth disabled ftp a long time ago so the prebuilt flyers
> >> are no longer available. Could you move them to HTTP please?

> >That would be better indeed.

And FTP remains disabled.

> >> What about packaging the flyers and uploading to Debian?
> >
> > Not quite sure if that'd be useful; but if you think it is: be my guest.
> 
> I think it would be useful but I don't have time for more projects.

I see.

> > YES!  What stalled it at the time we tried to do it: currently, there's a
> > $Date$ and $Version$ tag in the code; some mechanism is used to enable one to
> > easily check if all translations are up to date.  It's the same mechanism as
> > (once?) used by the Debian website pages.
> 
> The Debian website still uses this mechanism too.

Integrated in SVN, right?  Do you happen to know any project combining git and
this version-shizzle?

> > We couldn't find out / didn't have the time how to enable that with git, then.
> > I'd _*love*_ to have the flyers in git.
> > 
> > Care to help with that?
> 
> I expect that using po4a and normal gettext translation mechanisms would
> be the right way to go.

Yes, that would likely be the right way indeed.

> I don't have time to do the conversion, sorry.

That makes 2 of us... :-/

I might get to it, later...

Thanks again, Bye,

Joost

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