FW: Creating a GNOME Bugzilla component for your language

["James R. Johnson" <modean52 comcast net>]

I sent this in reply, but it bounced from your menthos gnome org e-mail.

James 

-----Original Message-----
From: James R. Johnson [mailto:modean52 comcast net] 
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 6:50 AM
To: 'Christian Rose'
Subject: RE: Creating a GNOME Bugzilla component for your language

* language code: ang
* language name (in English): Old English
* language name (spelled in the language itself): Englisc
* default owner (must be a valid bugzilla account): James Johnson (am I a
valid account?)
* default qa contact (must be a valid bugzilla account): James Johnson (am I
a valid bugzilla account?)
* component description: "Hér cann mann sendan síne gemearr ymbe Englisca
[ang] geþéodnessa." - "Here you can place your errors about Old English
[ang] translations."

James

-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Rose [mailto:menthos gnome org]
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 5:29 AM
To: James R. Johnson
Subject: Creating a GNOME Bugzilla component for your language

Please reply with the requested details as soon as possible -- thanks.

Cheers,
Christian


-----Forwarded message-----
In GNOME Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/) we (and users) have the
possibility to file bugs in translations, under the "l10n" product.
Every language should have its own component under this product, but
currently this isn't the case
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=l10n). I'm writing
to you as you're listed as language coordinator, and your language currently
lacks a component.
In order to add a component for your language, we need to know the following
information:

* language code
* language name (in English)
* language name (spelled in the language itself. We actually don't
  use this info in Bugzilla but on the http://www.gnome.org/i18n/
  page. Please replace non-ASCII characters with proper HTML escape
  sequences. See the HTML source code of that page for examples)
* default owner (must be a valid bugzilla account)
    The default owner is the person who should be assigned the bugs by
    default. If he or she doesn't have a bugzilla account, he or she can
    create one at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/createaccount.cgi.
* default qa contact (must be a valid bugzilla account)
    The default QA contact is usually the person who should make sure
    the bug was fixed properly by the assignee. If the qa contact person
    doesn't yet have a bugzilla account, he or she can create one at
    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/createaccount.cgi. This field is optional,
    you don't need to decide on a default qa contact if you don't want
    to.
* component description
    Usually of the form "Here you can place your bugs about
    $LANGUAGENAME [$LANGUAGECODE] translations". Example: "Here you can
    place your bugs about Swedish [sv] translations".
    If you have the possibility, try also to translate this into
    ASCII-only English, and we'll use the translation as well.

If you want, there's also the possibility to use a mailing list instead of
an individual for the default owner and/or default qa contact fields.
It's a bit more complicated; among other things you need access to the
mailing list configuration. Here is what you should do if you want a mailing
list in one or both of the fields above:

1) Create a bugzilla account for your mailing list, i.e. a Bugzilla account
with your list's address as account name.
2) Subscribe the bugzilla deamon address
(bugzilla-daemon widget gnome org) to your mailing list, but also disable
*ALL* mail from the mailing list to this address (If it's a Mailman mailing
list you can change bugzilla-daemon widget gnome org's
mailing list options to NOMAIL).


Once you have all the required information (and have configured your mailing
list according to the above if you want to use a mailing list), please send
this information to me.


Thanks,
Christian