960291 - [sync] Auto-detect locales when adding a project

Status: RESOLVED MOVED

(Webtools Graveyard :: Pontoon, defect, P4)

Description

[Matjaz Horvat [:mathjazz]]

When adding a new project in the admin view, user needs to select at least one locale. But we can simplify this process:

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CASE A.

But often we use repositories as source files, that already include all locales, e.g.:
https://svn.mozilla.org/projects/l10n-misc/trunk/pontoon/testpilot/

Similarly, .ini files contain strings for all locales in one file.

In this case, we can auto-detect locales when importing strings from repository. But admins still need an option to disable some of the locales in the repository.

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CASE B.

However, some repositories only contain files for one locale, so locales need to be set manually, e.g.:
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/gaia-l10n/v1_1/en-US/

In this case, auto-detecting locales is not possible at all.

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One way to implement this is to provide a "Auto-detect locales" checkbox in the project administration.

Detecting locales should be easy; we already have a function that detects the source folder (usually en-US or templates), so we only need to list all sister folders with localization files.

Comment 1

[Jarek Śmiejczak [:jotes]]

If we think about doing this in realtime during normal UI-interactions, then we need celery task to download repository and scan through files. Unfortunately, pontoon don't have any support for celery (yet). :mathjazz mentioned that :Osmose started some works with celery, so we'll be able to fix this issue in future.

Comment 2

[Osmose [:osmose, :mkelly]]

(In reply to Jarek Śmiejczak from comment #1)
> If we think about doing this in realtime during normal UI-interactions, then
> we need celery task to download repository and scan through files.
> Unfortunately, pontoon don't have any support for celery (yet). :mathjazz
> mentioned that :Osmose started some works with celery, so we'll be able to
> fix this issue in future.

Which reminded me to file bug 1208536. I've got a local branch that has, among other things, the base code for enabling celery on the site, although I never got as far as getting things set up on staging.

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

*This bug has been moved to GitHub.*

*Please check it out on https://github.com/mozilla/pontoon/issues.*