Re: Conclusion GTP and TP?

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

lör 2002-11-02 klockan 13.56 skrev Telsa Gwynne:
> And I'm at a loss on what this TP is. I have gathered it's another
> translation project. But what the robot is, what the scope of the
> TP is and so on, I don't know at all. I can make some guesses, and
> I think I have it sorted now, but I am not so sure that I'm going
> to say here and have my ignorance exposed in the archives for all
> posterity. 

Good point. I guess most of us were assuming that everyone knew what the
TP is, which of course isn't true. The TP is just as you say another
translation project. It used to be called the "Free Translation Project"
but nowadays it's just "Translation Project". The TP translates, among
other things, many core gnu utilities.
The TP has an e-mail "robot" which translators use to send in their
translations and translation updates, which checks the translations for
basic errors and well-formedness and forwards them to the application
maintainers. Application maintainers on the other hand only interfere
with the TP by collecting the translations and by sending in a new pot
file every once in a while.

The TP homepage is at http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/.


> Once a conclusion is reached on this, I think it might be worth
> putting a little intro on the GTP web pages...? "For new translators,
> here are other projects you may come across" sort of thing?
> 
> If it's there, I didn't find it.

I already plan on writing such a thing. :-)


Christian