Re: [SM-I18N] [SM-CVS] SF.net SVN: squirrelmail: [12654] branches

[Paul L. <pa...@sq...>]

On 9/1/07, Fredrik Jervfors <jer...@sq...> wrote:
> >> Updating translations by Andre Nicholson.
> >>
> >> branches/SM-1_4_10/locales/locale/ja_JP/LC_MESSAGES/squirrelmail.po
> >> branches/SM-1_4_11/locales/locale/ja_JP/LC_MESSAGES/squirrelmail.po
> >> branches/SM-1_4_10/locales/locale/ja_JP/LC_MESSAGES/plugins/junkfolder.po
> >> branches/SM-1_4_11/locales/locale/ja_JP/LC_MESSAGES/plugins/junkfolder.po
> >
> > Isn't Masato Higashiyama still the Japanese maintainer?  Did you run
> > these translations by him?
>
> The translations by Andre were posted to the i18n list in April, and I
> haven't received any comments on them so I decided to commit them. I can't
> remember seeing Masato ever posting to the i18n list, but come to think of
> it I got a link back in 2005 (see <http://marc.info/?t=113139474200002>)
> to a page which might contain translations in Japanese:
> <http://www.yamaai-tech.com/~masato/Download/>. Masato is still one of the
> list members, so he's getting the translations sent to the list and has
> the opportunity to comment them if he wants to prevent them from being
> committed.

Right.  Sadly, my feeling is that, as requested in that thread, Andre
did not base his work on Masato's most recent translations.  That to
me is a real waste as I think Masato's work is quite good.

> I would very much like to receive any translations to the i18n list
> instead of having to collect them all over the Internet, or at least a
> notice to the i18n list with a link when a translation is updated and
> stored somewhere else.
>
> Any comments from the Japanese translators? Should I take the translations
> from Masato's page and put them in the SquirrelMail repository?
>