Re: [sinhala-technical] Is sourcefourge ubunutu mirror down?

[Harshula <har...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 20:48 +0530, Anu-Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Harshula <har...@gm...> wrote:
>         On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 18:00 +0530, Anu-Linux wrote:
>         
>         > Thank you for the updates. I wish you guys will be able to
>         push it to
>         > the upstream.
>         
>         
>         Push what upstream?
>         
> 
> Humm... well "upstream" :D

You want to push "upstream" upstream? ;-) What is it that you want
pushed upstream?

>         Are you volunteering?
> 
> I would love to. But the thing is I'm not in a programming background.
> (That's why all this "upstream", "downstream" or what ever did not
> went correctly to my head). That's why I asked "how can any one of us
> contribute?". Look, you must have talk about this many times in the
> lists, but can you talk about it once more for the "new year"
> please :D...

I've been working on adding Sinhala support to GNU/Linux since 2003 and
predominately by myself for most of that time. What I noticed is that
people rarely have the free time for regular contributions.

Back in May 2008 I requested help to maintain sinhala.sf.net Ubuntu and
Debian packages:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1210607606.21701.38.camel%40B1.HOME&forum_name=sinhala-technical

I delegated the task to Dushara and Anuradha R. because of their
previous contributions to the Sinhala GNU/Linux effort. Unfortunately,
both have had limited free time. I am finding myself in the same
situation. And the best solution is to get all patches upstream and to
not maintain our own patched packages.

There are two main tasks:

1) i18n - internationalization - enabling Sinhala support
2) l10n - localization - translating the UI to Sinhala

The first task, i18n, is in maintenance mode. If someone finds a
technical problem or bug when using Sinhala on GNU/Linux please report
it to sin...@li... or li...@lu....

The second task, l10n, requires more contributors. Danishka has been
translating the UI single handedly for some time now. If you want to
help with the translating, send an email to
Sin...@go... or si...@li....

Translating the UI to Sinhala should be our focus now!

cya,
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