Re: Removed gpaint from status pages / no need to translate it

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

lör 2003-03-29 klockan 15.49 skrev Carlos Perelló Marín:
> > > > Carlos just permitted me to remove gpaint from our status pages as it's
> > > > obviously unmaintained.
> > > > Please stop translating it unless you take much pleasure in doing
> > > > useless extra work :).
> > > 
> > > If gpaint is unmaintained, how come it's still listed as part of Fifth
> > > Toe (http://5toe.lyrical.net/)? Perhaps we should make sure it gets
> > > actually removed from the Fifth Toe list of packages first before we
> > > remove it from the status pages in that case.
> > 
> > I supposed that you added it as a 5toe module,

That's correct. It was listed in Fifth Toe and as there was one version
already in GNOME cvs I assumed that was the module the project used, as
with many other Fifth Toe applications.
Fifth Toe is after all a collection of software that in most cases are
aspiring to become considered part of GNOME at some point, and as such
moving to use GNOME cvs is one part of that direction. I didn't realize
gpaint was going the opposite way.


> > but I reviewed it and
> > it's a GNOME 1.4 application and last code commit seems to be from one
> > year ago, so perhaps the gpaint that will come with the 5toe release
> > will come from other place != cvs.gnome.org
> 
> Yes, the gpaint development is not at cvs.gnome.org:
> 
> >From http://www.gnu.org/software/gpaint/
> 
> Latest development source can be obtained via the GNU CVS repository at
> Savannah.gnu.org.

Ok. That move is very unfortunate from a GNOME translator point of view,
but I guess there can't be much done about it. The gpaint in GNOME cvs
recieved 11 new translations by GNOME translators while listed on the
GNOME translation status pages, but perhaps the author has some other
reasons for not using GNOME cvs any longer.

I don't know what to do with the existing gpaint translations in GNOME
cvs. Perhaps it's safest if the authors of existing translations forward
their translations themselves to the gpaint author (atai@gnu.org), if
they're still interested in it.


Christian