January 2005 Archives
13 January 2005 10:39 AM SAST
Pootle ideas
Have managed to fix up the Pootle registration process, and
set up a Pootle
mailing list for any discussion.
Also found that Pootle was being Spidered by search engines, so added a robots.txt file as that was placing a lot of load on the server.
Now the TODO list is getting bigger, so hopefully some other developers will come on board (hint, hint). My next priorities are implementing PO uploading and an interface for assigning translations
In the mean time, some other related web sites that we can take ideas from:
Also found that Pootle was being Spidered by search engines, so added a robots.txt file as that was placing a lot of load on the server.
Now the TODO list is getting bigger, so hopefully some other developers will come on board (hint, hint). My next priorities are implementing PO uploading and an interface for assigning translations
In the mean time, some other related web sites that we can take ideas from:
- Gnome CVS has a nice folder viewing style we could borrow ideas from.
- KDE Translators Centre has a nice index of languages that you can sort in different ways
- RedHat's i18n-status page has a nice system for showsing statistics, assigning translations / letting people "Take" them
- Mandrake's l10n statistics are also interesting
13 January 2005 10:28 AM SAST
Free Software Magazine
It's really worth taking a look
through the Free
Software Magazine. Makes so much sense to have a magazine
focussed on free software rather than some particular operating
system. Now it would be nice to have regionally variant versions
(say an African / Southern African one that adds locally relevant
articles) - and that would be possible given the fact that articles
are made available under the GNU Free Documentation
License six weeks after publication.
06 January 2005 1:42 PM SAST
Simplifying RedHat Enterprise testing
Today packaging some stuff up for a
client who runs RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0
Encountered the problem that although RedHat is built up of lots of packages, its virtually impossibile to determine what they are - there's no simple list of packages per distribution version. Although there's a long list of shiny features ... it makes it look like they magically produce features without any underlying software
Ended up deciding to do a VMWare install of White Box Linux 3.0 which is a repackaged RHEL. But rather than downloading all three CDs on my slow and bandwidth-encumbered ADSL line in South Africa, I found I could just download the first, download the other two remotely and mount them over shfs - thus reducing my network traffic to a minumum. Beautiful...
Encountered the problem that although RedHat is built up of lots of packages, its virtually impossibile to determine what they are - there's no simple list of packages per distribution version. Although there's a long list of shiny features ... it makes it look like they magically produce features without any underlying software
Ended up deciding to do a VMWare install of White Box Linux 3.0 which is a repackaged RHEL. But rather than downloading all three CDs on my slow and bandwidth-encumbered ADSL line in South Africa, I found I could just download the first, download the other two remotely and mount them over shfs - thus reducing my network traffic to a minumum. Beautiful...