[Audacity-translation] Ready to start translating Audacity 1.2.0

[Dominic M. <do...@mi...>]

Translators:

At long last, we have "frozen" the set of features for Audacity 1.2.0,
and we are ready for you to begin translating.  We are going to spend
the next 4-6 weeks just fixing bugs and preparing for the release, so
you have a little while to complete your translations.  Please try to
finish by the end of July, but sooner is great, too!

We promise that we will try not to change any text from now on.
However, if necessary, we will change as little as possible and
we'll notify the list of the changes.

We are not finished with the 1.2.0 manual - that will come later.
Also, we don't yet have a version of Audacity that you can use to
test these new strings - but we will within a week.  I thought some
of you might want to get started translating right now, though.

The most recent audacity.pot file is now online, linked from this page
as usual:

   http://audacity.sourceforge.net/translation/

Make sure you clear your browser's cache!  You don't want to get an
old version.  In most web browsers, hold down Shift while clicking
Reload.  The latest audacity.pot file has a lot of comments that
start with "i18n-hint" - these are new messages that the developers
have added to aid you in translation, to resolve ambiguities.

Please let us know if you have any questions, or if you have suggestions
for more hints.  You can send translated .po files directly to me when 
finished.

Finally, one last request: if you are planning to update a translation,
please email this list and let everyone know which language you're
doing (and give the 2-letter code to be clear).  That way if we haven't
heard anyone volunteer for a particular language in 2 weeks, we can
start looking for new recruits.

Thanks for all your hard work.  You're doing a wonderful thing, helping
to make Audacity available to so many more people!

- Dominic