Re: [Gaim-devel] Gaim translations and translation projects

[Luke S. <lsc...@gm...>]

Gaim is not now, and has no intention of becoming a Gnome project. :-)
as such, recieving translations here on gaim-devel or in the patch 
tracker is the ideal way, I or another developer can commit them to cvs.
luke

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 11:01:11PM +0100, Christian Rose wrote:
> (please cc: me on replies as I'm not subscribed to this list)
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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