[Gaim-devel] Gaim translations and translation projects

[Christian R. <me...@gn...>]

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Hi!

As probably some of you know gaim has had translations available in
GNOME cvs, so that GNOME translators inside the GNOME Translation
Project (GTP) could more easily translate gaim.

However, as there have been clashes in the past with the Translation
Project (TP; http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/) where there
unfortunately were translators from both projects working on the same
translations independantly of each other, and as a result much wasted
work and confusion, we've had to decide on and agree on what kind of
software should be taken care of what translation project.

As a result, we've agreed on:

1) Translations of software present in GNOME cvs should be handled
by the GNOME Translation Project (GTP). Important GNOME software or
software that wants in other ways to be considered a part of GNOME
should use (or move to) the GNOME cvs anyway; there are many other
development benefits of using the same cvs for software under the same
project umbrella.

2) Translations of all other software should be handled by the
Translation Project (TP). The TP has a much better infrastructure for
handling of translations of software from many development sources
anyway (in the TP, you have access to a huge amount of translators, and
the process is basically just sending a pot file there once in a while,
usually before a release, and you get syntax-checked and validated
translations mailed back to a pre-defined address).

This among other things means that we are starting to phase out the
"extra-po" directory in GNOME cvs where gaim translations has been
located until now.

So, we need to know how to proceed. The decision is up to you -- are you
moving to work more closely with GNOME and want to use the GNOME cvs, or
are you more comfortable with gaim being independantly developed as it
is now?

In the first case, we should help you move the project to the GNOME cvs,
in the second case we should help you set up gaim in the TP
(http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/maintainers.html) and
import existing translations there, as that seems more appropriate in
that case.

Opinions/comments/decisions?


Christian