Re: [Tails-l10n] Weblate & manual reviews of Git

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Subject: Re: [Tails-l10n] Weblate & manual reviews of Git
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On 18.07.19 12:06, sajolida wrote:
> Today I fetched tails.git for the first time in 1 week.
> As always when I do so, I read the changes. Even though we don't have an
> explicit policy about this I think that intrigeri also does that as it
> can be a useful watchdog. For example, that's how we detect spam on the
> blueprints and revert it.
>
> This diff for 1 week included 178 commits most of them from Weblate.
>
> What used to take me 1-2 minutes now took me > 5 min, was much more
> painful and error prone. I'm not sure I will continue doing this extra
> work if that becomes the norm.
>
> I understand that Weblate is not yet ready for production so I guess
> it's still a good time to discuss this.
>
> I would like to continue checking all changes on tails.git whenever I
> fetch it:
>
> * Would it be possible to further lower the amount of commits done by
> Weblate? What would be the other drawbacks?
>
> * Would it be possible to document tricks on how to do such a review
> more easily (and maybe more consistently)?
>
> * 2 of these commits were particularly scary (179e0bdaba and
> fc87cf823e) and I'm glad I reviewed then :) I understand that emmapeel
> did a mistake and then fixed it, which is fine.
>
> How could prevent such mistakes from happening in the first place?
>
> Has Weblate or Weblate admins the rights to override any file in
> tails.git, even if it's not a PO file? Could we restrict this further?
>