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

[Rob F. <ro...@fa...>]

Luke -
I will handle the response to Christian's message.   I'm the maintainer
of the project.  Let's not forget that.

Rob



On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 19:38, Luke Schierer wrote:
> 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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