Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Removing older versions of strings from pootle

Hi Hossein,

2011.04.19 16:08, Hossein Noorikhah rašė:
> I have to remind that we're in a situation that we only have one
> legacy branch. Sooner or later, we will have multiple versions of LibO
> strings available on pootle, that not only make the workspace crowded,
> but downloading zip folders and operations like this on them, make
> pootle slow.
> When pootle can't do things in parallel, we can partition the job
> logically and put it on multiple servers to gain speed up. So, Why not
> setup a pootle instance for legacy strings? All the previous versions
> can go there so everyone that needs them can still use it without
> switching to a new traslating interface.

Disclaimer: the following is my personal impression.
I don't (yet) think this makes much sense for one simple reason: as far 
as I remember from OOo, and looking at what we have now, it simply 
doesn't seem like LibO would be releasing from two or more branches 
simultaniously often and for long times. Unlike Mozilla. This makes 
excessive server load from working on old strings quite unlikely in my 
eyes. I think such load would be more occasional than usual, so in my 
opinion, it simply doesn't justify maintaining two totally independent 
installations of Pootle and keeping them in sync with each other.

> On the other hand, an upgrade on the current version, keeps everything in place.
> Anyway, someday in near future we'll have to remove older versions, so
> why not create a guideline for the lifecycle of those old strings and
> keep them in a good place?

I think the policy here is quite simple: when there is a decision that 
there will be no more releases from a certain branch, then that branch 
should be dropped from Pootle.

Rimas

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