Re: Make GNUN more user-friendly

[Ineiev]

On 09/02/2013 04:51 PM, Thérèse Godefroy wrote:
> Le lundi 02 septembre 2013 à 10:05 +0400, Ineiev a écrit :
> > Nonetheless I'll try to check whether we can run it on a server.
>
> Then GNUN will become a SASS!   lol

No: first, we'll only provide it for our volunteers; second,
it is questionable whether the computing is non-trivial.

> Might be a good idea, though, because people wouldn't have to worry
> about installing it. But the modified PO files would have to be uploaded
> the "easy" way, meaning via the browser, not CVS, otherwise no non-geek
> translator would ever use the facility. 

Sure thing.

> Besides, one has to take the connection speed into account. How long
> would it take for a person living in a remote French village, with a
> 6km-long, rotten ADSL subscriber line (not my case, don't worry), to
> upload gpl-faq.fr.po (385.6kB) and get the HTML back? Certainly more
> than 3 seconds, I would think.

On the other hand, it is certainly less than 20MB needed to checkout
a selective CVS working copy (I do realize that it may be checked out
via a sneaker net, it may be done once per a session or less often, etc).

> And what about the recurrent overload of some backbones in the Boston
> area?

I don't think this may add any significant load; there are few active
translators.

>               DL (Mb/s)               UL (Mb/s)
> Boston        0,92 and 1.27           0.85


If those are Mbits/s, then gzipped PO would upload in a second,
and the page would download even faster, and typical page size is 10k,
so the speed shouldn't be an issue in this case.