Currently zanata client fetch documents/PO_files for individual projects only. It would be really helpful if zanata client fetch documents for all the tracked projects (created under a specific GROUP), then upload modified documents back to the Zanata server. This would facilitate 'Translator' and/or language 'Co-ordinator' with slow or unreliable connection (and thereby prefer not using Zanata Web-UI editor for localization). Steps to Reproduce: 1. fetch/download ~/GROUP/projectA-Z/LANG.po at one go using zanata client 2. localize ~/GROUP/projectA-Z/LANG.po 3. push/upload ~/GROUP/projectA-Z/LANG.po at one go using zanata client Actual results: Currently functionality of 'tracking the group without individually tracking each project' is not available by the zanata client Expected results: zanata client should 'track the group without individually tracking each project'
The zanata client does not have a concept of 'tracking' projects - rather there is just a config file that describes a project against which push and pull operations are run manually. Adding a feature like this would require a config file that describes a group, and an update to the client to be able to iterate pull and push for all projects in a group. Note that this may be a very expensive operation, so running it in a synchronously command is not ideal. Zayf is a different client to Zanata that is under development and is specifically designed to address the issue of translating with a slow or unreliable connection. For this use case I think development time would be better spent making Zayf able to track a project group. See: https://github.com/davidmason/zayf/issues/7
Hi sandeep, Do you want to track all projects in a group, or a subset of the projects in the group as well? If you want both, I would suggest that we split this bug, one for tracking all projects in a group, another is for adding or removing projects, pretty much like what we do for kickstart files (i.e. -<projectX> for exclude projectX. What would you say?
(In reply to Ding-Yi Chen from comment #2) > Hi sandeep, > > Do you want to track all projects in a group, or a subset of the projects in > the group as well? > > If you want both, I would suggest that we split this bug, one for tracking > all projects in a group, another is for adding or removing projects, pretty > much like what we do for kickstart files (i.e. -<projectX> for exclude > projectX. > > What would you say? 'Both' would be good too.
Reassigned to PM
Migrated; check JIRA for bug status: http://zanata.atlassian.net/browse/ZNTA-288