Re: open translations database

["Kenneth Christiansen" <kenneth gnu org>]

Here it would be nice if we had a tool which could make a translation 
status of a distribution. Ie, for SuSE we would for instance have a 
statustabel just like for Gnome - though the packages would be very frozen.

Here it should be a cvs, where you could checkout your "already" merged
po sources. and check them in again, when they are updated.

Also, if the status would mark a package as red if it's going to be 
replaced in short time, that would be nice too. Then again, if a new
package/updated package is being added and it's not 100% for your langauge
you should get a mail.

A system for this, that could be used my SuSE, Red Hat, Mandrake, etc 
would be really nice. Unfortunately I know only little about how distributors
handle their packages, so I make this before knowing so.

This would be *very* nice though, and it should list all packages with 
i18n support, from gnome, gnu to kde.

I see it as more importain that the packages are 100% translated in 
distributions as compared to individual releases

Also, in gnome we *really* need a module, with a file, where you can 
write when you are going to release a new package! If we can get people
to use that, it would really really make my day.

For instance we could call it 'gnome-releases/upcoming'. Then there 
could also be a subdir with old release announcements ;) Maybe someone
has better idea, but this way, only people with cvs access know about
the upcoming releases, which I think is good

Kenneth

> > Sorry, but that is the sad truth. Also, especially distributions (I do
> > not know about suse) don't like updating packages for this.
> 
> In part that's true.  We're not allowed to add those "cosmetical"
> updates to a released distribution.  But we are allowed to add newer
> message files for forthcoming releases (say: gnome-libs-1.2.8 plus newer
> .po/.mo files from the CVS for SuSE Linux 7.1).  That's what I've
> actually done for tools like `wget' and I'd certainly do it for GNOME
> programs if a package is really old (and newer translations are
> available) or if users will send me precise feedback (which package,
> which language).