[08:14] <dpm> morning all
[09:24] <TLE> dpm: hey
[09:26] <dpm> hi TLE
[09:26] <TLE> I'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?
[09:27] <TLE> combining that with the lp interface and we might have some real magic happening
[09:29] <dpm> TLE, 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 time
[09:30] <TLE> yeah, but I actually meant for lang pack testing
[09:31] <dpm> oh, I see, what were you thinking of exactly?
[09:31] <TLE> in 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] <dpm> nice
[09:32] <TLE> in a more advanced iteration, use the lp interface to actually check if it is the latest translation
[09:33] <TLE> I 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 easier
[09:33] <dpm> yeah
[09:34] <TLE> oh well, putting a little investigation of that on my ever growing TODO-list
[09:34] <dpm> :)
[09:38] <TLE> uh 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?
[09:39] <TLE> err: checkout/clone/update whatever
[09:40] <dpm> TLE, 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 Django
[09:41] <dpm> I'm not familiar with php, but IIRC the complaints I heard were about security issues
[09:42] <dpm> actually, now that I think of it, we do have a server, the translations.ubuntu.com one. We could perhaps use that one
[09:43] <TLE> well, 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 forst
[09:43] <TLE> first
[09:45] <dpm> TLE, if you want to try, I can try to find a server
[09:45] <dpm> the other reason why I'd recommend django is because it's easy internationalizable
[09:46] <TLE> yeah, 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 doc
[09:46] <dpm> that'd be extremely cool
[09:47] <TLE> ok 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 materialize
[09:48] <dpm> I'll start looking around anyway, it shouldn't take me much time
[09:51] <TLE> ok
[16:44] <TLE> dpm: I think I can already now say, that this webpage is going to happen
[16:45] <TLE> though I must admit that I think django is a massive overkill unless you have real database usage
[16:45] <TLE> but than I got to fiddle with that also :D
[16:46] <dpm> \o/
[16:46] <TLE> I think I'm about 40% done with the coding of a first version, so it is ok if you start looking for some webspace
[16:46] <dpm> let's talk later on, I have to hop onto a call
[16:46] <TLE> yeah I'm going home as well, talk to you later
[16:47] <dpm> ok, cool, and thanks for doing this!
[16:47] <TLE> np