Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Re: [Libreoffice] Translation plans for LO-3.3 and future

Why not use Transifex?

Many projects has used Transifex platform to provide localization work, suc
h
as Fedora, Xfce, MeeGo, LXDE... It is better for translators to view,
download and keep track of the po files. It also provides a easy-to-use
online editor for independent translators.

http://trac.transifex.org/

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Andre Schnabel <Andre.Schnabel@gmx.net>wrot
e:

> Hi Petr,
>
> (forwarding for info to l10n@libo)
>
> thanks for the update - all correct, but one addition:
>
> We might be able to provide a pootle server for 3.3 as well. But all
> people who are fine with directly pulling po-files and sending these
> to the mailing list, should go on as suggested.
>
> André
>
>
> > Von: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
> > An: libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org
>
> > first, we are really happy to hear that so many people would want to
> > help with translating LibreOffice.
> >
> > We will use a temporary process for 3.3 and something better for the
> > next releases.
> >
> >
> > Proposed process for LibreOffice-3.3:
> >
> >       + we are going to regularly merge ooo330-mX, so we will get
> >           translation for most strings from OOo-3.3 sources
> >
> >
> >       + the libreoffice-specific strings are listed in
> >           libreoffice/build/po/lo-build.pot, see
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/build/tree/po/lo-build.pot
> >
> >           Some of the strings are already translated in the
> >           libreoffice/build/po/lo-build-<lang>.po files, see
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/build/tree/po
> >
> >           Please, help us to have 100% translated strings in the
> >           lo-<lang>.po files
> >
> >         You might send your changes to this mailing list and someone
> >           with a commit access will push them to the git.
> >
> >           Of course, you might also ask for commit access. Though, I
> >           am not sure if it is worth for this temporary process.
> >
> >           Note that you might ignore libreoffice/build/po/<lang>.po
> >           files. They are used for desktop integration by some Linux
> >           distributions. They are not important for LibreOffice.
> >           They will most likely get removed soon.
> >
> >
> >       + if you want to fix a string that is not in lo-build.pot,
> >           you might create a reduced .sdf file and we will put it
> >           as a hotfix into libreoffice/build/src/sdf
> >
> >           It is a bit inconvenient but it is only for LO-3.3 release.
> >
> >           Let us know if you have troubles to create the sdf file. We
> >           will try to help you with it. Personally, I would try to base
> >           it on the existing .sdf file in the l10n source module, see
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/l10n/tree/l10n/source
> >
> >
> > Plans for the future:
> >
> >       + we would like to setup a pootle server and allow to translate
> >           all LibreOffice strings at the same place a convenient way
> >       + the strings will be extracted from the pootle server and
> >           used for the regular test builds
> >
> >
> > Schedule for LibreOffice-3.3:
> >
> >       + libreoffice/build/po/lo-build.pot and lo-build-<lanf>.po
> >           have been just updated, so they follow the current state
> >           => please, start with contributing
> >
> >       + string freeze will be at the end of October; I expect only
> >           very few new strings; nobody should add any huge feature at
> >           this stage
> >
> >         + final release date is a bit unclear; My estimation is Decembe
r
> >           but I am not the one who would decide ;-)
> >
> >
> > Any hints how to improve the processes are welcome.
> >
> > André, please fix me if any information above is wrong or if you s
uggest
> > any improvement. You are much bigger expert here. I just try to solve
> > the technical problems... :-)
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Petr
> >
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