Re: Updated Package Descriptions Translations - Volunteers?

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld dkuug dk>]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 03:38:15PM -0500, Aaron Weber wrote:
> Hello i18n friends!
>   Those of you on the docs mailing list probably already know me, but at
> any rate, I'm Aaron Weber, tech writer for Helix Code.
> 
> One of the things I'm working on is package descriptions for all of
> GNOME-- those short little one-sentence things that tell you what libfoo
> does when you look at it in dselect or whatever.  A lot of these
> descriptions are getting old, and many were never very helpful in the
> first place (Package: Foo. Description: the Foo application).  So, I've
> gone through and rewritten them all.
> 
> I've got a text file of all the descriptions, and it's maybe 400 lines
> long, and would be quite simple to translate.  
> 
> How should I go about arranging for translations? Once given a
> translated text file, I can get everything packaged up, so it wouldn't
> be necessary to do any technical work. Should I just ask for volunteers
> here?

Could it be put up int gettext .po file format?
And then maintained in the Gnome CVS ?
Then I think it will get good attention from translators.


Kind regards
Keld