[Scrollkeeper-devel] Scrollkeeper translations and translation projects

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

Hi!

As you probably all know scrollkeeper has had translations available in
GNOME cvs, so that GNOME translators inside the GNOME Translation
Project (GTP) could more easily translate scrollkeeper, as GNOME uses
scrollkeeper in it's core help system.

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 finally 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 (independant) software should be handled by
the Translation Project (TP). The TP has a much better infrastructure
for handling of translations of software from many sources anyway.

This among other things means that we are phasing out the "extra-po"
directory in GNOME cvs where scrollkeeper and other "out-of-gnome-cvs"
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 scrollkeeper being independantly developed
as it is now? From previous communication I understand that scrollkeper
maintainers prefer to have it as an independant project, so I guess the
answer above is the second one. In that case we should help you set up
scrollkeeper in the TP and import existing translations there
(instructions for adding modules to the TP are at
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/maintainers.html).

Opinions/comments/decisions?


Christian