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dpmmorning all08:14
TLEdpm: hey09:24
dpmhi TLE09:26
TLEI've just been catching up on the latest HUD news. Is it just me or is the hud-cli interface (or whatever lib is probably coming for the same thing) looking pretty interesting as a platform for translation testing?09:26
TLEcombining that with the lp interface and we might have some real magic happening09:27
dpmTLE, yeah, even before that, I've been thinking of a "translations lens" to search translations and show them in the dash, but right unfortunately I don'T have much hacking time09:29
TLEyeah, but I actually meant for lang pack testing09:30
dpmoh, I see, what were you thinking of exactly?09:31
TLEin its simplest implementation, simply use the hud-cli to get all the top drop down menu items and ask the user if it looks right (translated)09:31
dpmnice09:31
TLEin a more advanced iteration, use the lp interface to actually check if it is the latest translation09:32
TLEI mean, this off course is probably already possible with intrespection or whatever it is called, but the interface code for that written for the HUD just might make it a lot easier09:33
dpmyeah09:33
TLEoh well, putting a little investigation of that on my ever growing TODO-list09:34
dpm:)09:34
TLEuh btw, speaking of TODO list, there was this talk about virtualising the (existing and) missing screenshots for the help. I was thinking of trying to hack up some php for that, but that would be easiest done from a webserver that could run a bzr checkout as a cronjob, do you think it would be possible to get our hands on something like that?09:38
TLEerr: checkout/clone/update whatever09:39
dpmTLE, I can ask, but I'm not sure we could get such a server. In any case, afaik PHP is very much frowned upon by Canonical IS, and usually the server tools are developed in Django09:40
dpmI'm not familiar with php, but IIRC the complaints I heard were about security issues09:41
dpmactually, now that I think of it, we do have a server, the translations.ubuntu.com one. We could perhaps use that one09:42
TLEwell, server or room on a server. In any case php is just the language that I'm familiar with, and so could hack something up fairly fast (but I actually prefer python so perhaps django would be ok) it would just mean getting familiar with it forst09:43
TLEfirst09:43
dpmTLE, if you want to try, I can try to find a server09:45
dpmthe other reason why I'd recommend django is because it's easy internationalizable09:45
TLEyeah, that was what I was thinking, but only of you also think that it is worth it, the idea was to create something like: http://l10n.gnome.org/module/accerciser/help/master/da/images/ for the main doc09:46
dpmthat'd be extremely cool09:46
TLEok then, I'll have a look at django and access how much time it would take me to get going, then I report back if I think it is feasible, and then maybe you could start looking for server space, no reason to start that now if it is not going to materialize09:47
dpmI'll start looking around anyway, it shouldn't take me much time09:48
TLEok09:51
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TLEdpm: I think I can already now say, that this webpage is going to happen16:44
TLEthough I must admit that I think django is a massive overkill unless you have real database usage16:45
TLEbut than I got to fiddle with that also :D16:45
dpm\o/16:46
TLEI think I'm about 40% done with the coding of a first version, so it is ok if you start looking for some webspace16:46
dpmlet's talk later on, I have to hop onto a call16:46
TLEyeah I'm going home as well, talk to you later16:46
dpmok, cool, and thanks for doing this!16:47
TLEnp16:47
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