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L10N tools: Increase quality of translations
by Dimitris Glezos 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Hi all. Some members from the L10N project have identified some issues that need to be solved to make sure the translations of Fedora are of high quality. Some of them are infrastructure-related and at today's (-admin) meeting it was suggested to transfer the discussion here. I'm sure the folks at Red Hat are doing their best to keep the quality of the translations high. But the truth is that Fedora's image in the context of translations is not good; we do hear that a lot, from current and wanna-be members. We can and should work to improve it. Semi-translated applications are U-G-L-Y and shout "low QA" in our ears. Some possible ideas have been listed on the following page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Tasks Please feel free to chip in and help us out correct whatever doesn't seem reasonable, break tasks into smaller tasks etc. The bigger picture of some of these problems are: * L10N of "local" applications (those listed on [1]) is poor; releases and package updates contain untranslated strings in many languages. This is unacceptable for a fully-localized desktop. * The barrier to contribute to the l10n (be it GUI or Docs) is higher than it should be (compared to other projects). * QA of the translations is difficult with the current tools. Some more concrete ideas to discuss that might concern the InfrProj and the RelEng team are: * Integrate better the handling of translation during a "local" package's lifecycle. Have a flag raised for a package update that introduces new strings so that translators can translate the new strings before the repackaging/updating. Include in the schedule for each release a "string freeze date" and a week later a "translation freeze date" and have all our packages rebuilt after the latter and before the actual release. * Move po files on their own cvsroot on cvs.fedoraproject.org to reduce complexity and maintenance and to increase security (with a new group). * Move the i18n status pages to Fedora servers (Plone/Turbogears?). Include a direct link to the pofiles from there so that new members can have something to work on before getting cvs access. * In the future, use Plone to automate the QA between team members (ie coordinators can review translations etc). * Start working with the complex and tricky path to upstream translations that no distribution has tackled yet in a successful way. Bring our translators closer to the upstream projects. Hope some of the above make sense. :) -d [1]: http://i18n.redhat.com/cgi-bin/i18n-status -- Dimitris Glezos Jabber ID: glezos(a)jabber.org, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B http://dimitris.glezos.com/ "He who gives up functionality for ease of use loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous) --

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Desktop-effects
by Igor Pires Soares 07 Jan '07

07 Jan '07

Hello Guys! Today I was looking into my "Translate" directory and noticed that there is a desktop-effects folder, but there is only one po file inside. I would like to know how to make a po file for my language. Thanks in advance, Igor Pires Soares

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TortoiseCVS update problem
by bungle bungle 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

Hi, trying to Checkout translate module, I've got strange behaviour. TortoiseCVS updates only first folder anaconda..and then says that CVS update succesfull, etc. and update ends. When I try to use update command I got the same output..

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Re: [Fwd: Re: maithili]
by Sangeeta Kumari 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Thanks! Just mai is sufficeint. IN is country name. Regards, Sangeeta > Hi Sangeeta, > > Could you tell me the difference between mai and mai_IN? > Should I create just mai or both? > > Cheers, > Chester > > > > Sangeeta Kumari 提到: > > Hi > I want to start l10n work for Maithili language ( mai_IN) for Fedora. > Its locale is mai_IN. > > Thanks Aman for encouraging us for fedora l10n. > > Regards, > Sangeeta Kumari > > ------------------------------ > > -- > Fedora-trans-list mailing listFedora-trans-list@redhat.comhttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-trans-list > > > > > -- > Fedora-trans-list mailing list > Fedora-trans-list(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-trans-list > >

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Call for updates - Release Notes
by Robert 'Bob' Jensen 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

In about 1 week we would like to push a snapshot of the release notes beats on the wiki to translation. If you have a beat on the wiki please try to get any updates completed by Dec 7 23:59 UTC. The snapshot should be going to Translation by Dec 9 23:59 UTC. Translations will be due back 10 days later (Dec 19 23:59 UTC) for packaging and publishing. -- Robert 'Bob' Jensen * * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BobJensen gpg fingerprint: F9F4 7243 4243 0043 2C45 97AF E8A4 C3AE 42EB 0BC6 Fedora Docs Projects FDSCo http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject

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Deutsche Übersetzung der Releasenotes
by Heiko Adams 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

Hallo Timo, ich habe nichts dagegen, die beiden Sprachdateien zu vermischen. Macht mir/uns die Arbeit unter dem Strich ja nur einfacher ;-) Gruß Heiko

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Docs Self Introduction :Dimitrios Typaldos
by Dimitrios Typaldos 10 Dec '06

10 Dec '06

Self-Introduction: Dimitrios Typaldos Hello ! Full legal name (as you use it is fine) : Dimitrios Typaldos City: Birmingham, Country: United Kingdom Timezone: GMT Profession or Student status: PhD candidate student Particle Physics University of Birmingham, UK Newly introduced in the Fedora Project but as a user for long time , I am intending to contribute initially in software translation/documentation (in greek as this is my native language) and later in technical issues (for the moment I have some time constraints). I have the passion to learn and get involved as much as I can in linux-fedora os. I have already contacted people from the fedora-trans-el list and for start I need the CVS access in order to download the packages. For start, I will ask someone in this list to check my work verifying that everything is getting done as intended. Computer skills : - shell script programming , C/C++/FORTRAN at good level and a bit of python GPG KEYID and fingerprint pub 1024D/6A7B898C 2006-11-16 Key fingerprint = F892 27EB 871A 3C16 B18E 3AD5 3A6A 3F77 6A7B 898C uid Dimitrios Typaldos (Encrypted) <dtfedora(a)yahoo.com> sub 2048g/4773BB57 2006-11-16 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index

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comps-po - What is the purpose of tags in newly introduced lines and how do they work?
by Renato Pavičić 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

I wrote before about strange lines, but later on I read them carefully... What is the purpose of tags in newly introduced lines? Are they cross-referenced among themselves or to some other line? Because, almost all of them have no logic if you read only line at a time. Examples: #: comps-fc6.xml.in.h:1 comps-fc7.xml.in.h:1 #: comps-rhel5-client-core.xml.in.h:1 msgid "" "</_description> <default>false</default> <uservisible>false</uservisible> " "<langonly>af</langonly> <packagelist> <packagereq type=\"conditional\" " "requires=\"aspell\">aspell-af</packagereq> <packagereq type=\"conditional\" " "requires=\"openoffice.org-core\">openoffice.org-langpack-af_ZA</packagereq> " "</packagelist> </group> <group> <id>arabic-support</id> <_name>Arabic " "Support</_name> <_description>" Here we have important (?) tags and values: <langonly>af <packagelist> <packagereq type=\"conditional\" requires=\"aspell\">aspell-af</packagereq> <packagereq type=\"conditional\" requires=\"openoffice.org-core\">openoffice.org-langpack-af_ZA</packagereq> <id>arabic-support</id> <_name>Arabic Support</_name> <_description> 1. What is the purpose of "langonly" if "af" is a code for Afrikaans? 2. "requires" for "Aspell" confirms country code, and so does "openoffice.org-core" 3. If "langonly" calls Afrikaans, why does "id" and "name" call Arabic? Even more interesting is next line (copied only interesting parts): <langonly>as <packagelist> <packagereq type=\"mandatory\">fonts-bengali</packagereq> <packagereq type=\"mandatory\">m17n-db-assamese</packagereq> <packagereq type=\"conditional\" requires=\"openoffice.org-core\">openoffice.org-langpack-as_IN</packagereq> […] <id>authoring-and-publishing</id> <_name>Authoring and Publishing</_name> <_description>These tools allow you to create documents in the DocBook format and convert them into HTML, PDF, Postscript, and text." So here we have something that is only for ASm requires bengali font and asmaric db, langpack for asameese… etc and is named: "Authoring and Publishing"?!? Next one: <langonly>ca requires=\"aspell\">aspell-ca requires=\"kdelibs\">kde-i18n-Catalan requires=\"openoffice.org-core\">openoffice.org-langpack-ca_ES <id>chinese-support</id> <_name>Chinese Support</_name> <_description> Erm, support for Chinese people that live in Catalonia? This file looks funny even when I open it in xml editor... -- Best regards, Renato Pavicic mailto:repavici@globalnet.hr also mailto:renato@translator-shop.org homepage: www.translator-shop.org Official Opera translator for Croatian language since April 2006

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moving to another computer
by Boris Becker 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

What do I have to do to use another computer with my i18n account ? I am having problems with my internet access at home (wireless) and I may use my FC6 at work. I tried to setup my laptop but I couldn't with the existing account. Is there a howto ? Thanks Regards Domingo Becker Spanish _________________________________________________________________ Visita MSN Latino Noticias: Todo lo que pasa en el mundo y en tu paín, ¡en tu idioma! http://latino.msn.com/noticias/

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rhn-client-tools strings
by Boris Becker 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

The strings in rhn-client-tools package are not splitted by paragraph. It is hard to translate them that way. Regards _________________________________________________________________ Latinos en EE.UU: noticias y artículos de interés para ti http://latino.msn.com/noticias/latinoseneeuu

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