Re: shared-mime-info minimum version update

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 14:42 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il giorno mar, 12/06/2007 alle 10.14 +0100, Bastien Nocera ha scritto:
> > On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 09:25 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > Bastien (you are maintainer, aren't you?), please note that the latest
> > > translation template officially sent to Transation Project was the
> > > 0.17!! See [1]
> > > 
> > > IMHO is better send new template to TP, wait for updated translations,
> > > relase 0.22 with those and make GNOME depend on it (as recommended
> > > version, of course)
> > > 
> > > PS maybe fd.o should switch to a custom and automated translation
> > > framework: fd.o stuff's translations (HAL, gst*, shared-mime-info...)
> > > are always outdated.
> > > 
> > > [1]
> > > http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/registry.cgi?domain=shared-mime-info
> > 
> > Chris Neumair and Christophe Fergeau are the official maintainers. I'm a
> > bug and release monkey :)
> 
> You are still in MAINTAINER file, while it's 2 years old and not
> included in EXTRA_DIST ;-)

Bleh. No idea who did that :)

> > I have no idea how to interact with TP,
> 
> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/HTML/maintainers.html
> 
> >  and people have been sending
> > updated translations directly to me, to the list, or committing
> > themselves if they have access.
> 
> There is also Launchpad.net from Canonical/Ubuntu to manage
> translations, see https://translations.launchpad.net/+about and
> https://help.launchpad.net/FeatureHighlights/SoftwareTranslation
> 
> Just a note: the FAQ[1] says Launchpad translations are under BSD
> licence, the TermOfUse page says that submitted translations are under
> the same licence as the software. 

And why aren't those translations getting back upstream, where they
belong?

-- 
Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>