From kde-i18n-doc  Sun Mar 27 23:55:08 2005
From: Spiros Georgaras <sngeorgaras () otenet ! gr>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:55:08 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: New coordinator questions
Message-Id: <200503280255.08316.sngeorgaras () otenet ! gr>
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Hi all

I am the new coordinator of the Greek (el) team, and I have just started 
reading about stable and unstable branches and the way to go form one to the 
other. I am confused and I need your help.

All this last week I have been commiting to cvs - branch BASE - but I have 
just realised I should have been doing it in branch KDE_3_4_BRANCH.

In order to start doing that, I have to pass my BASE- branch files to 
KDE_3_4_BRANCH.

So I have two directories 
stable/kde-i18n/el/messages (that is KDE_3_4_BRANCH) and
unstable/kde-i18n/el/messages (that is BASE branch)

So this is what I think I should do

cd unstable/kde-i18n/el/messages
cvs update -A
cd stable/kde-i18n/el/messages
cvs update -r KDE_3_4_BRANCH

Then for every directory (that belongs to the official KDE) under 
unstable/kde-i18n/el/messages, I will copy all the po files to the same 
directory of stable/kde-i18n/el/messages

Then I will commit from stable/kde-i18n/el/messages with
cvs commit -r KDE_3_4_BRANCH
and wait for a day before start translating. If I get that right scripty does 
the merging between the po files and the updated pot files?

Is the above procedure correct?

If I understand well, this is what I do every time a new branch is created. 
How do I know when it will be created?

And when do I have to do the oposite? Copy the files from the stable branch to 
the HEAD (or BASE branch)? I suppose just before a new branch is created (in 
our case KDE_3_5_BRANCH or KDE_4_0_BRANCH). But how will I know that?

Sorry If I ask the same questions others have asked, but I wouldn't like to 
mess up the CVS repository because of missunderstanding the procedure...

So if you see some errors to what I've written so far, please correct me.

Thank you in advance
Spiros Georgaras

PS. It would be great to have this info in the i18n.kde.org site somewhere...