Re: New team for Tigrinya (ti)

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

lör 2005-04-16 klockan 05:22 -0700 skrev Simon Mebrahtu:
> Hello guys!!
> 
> Am here by announcing a new Tigrinya_Eritrea(ti_ER)
> team.
> 
> Team Leader: Simon Mebrahtu
> E-mail: simesoft (at) yahoo (dot) com
> 
> official website for this project will be
> http://tinux.sourceforge.net and for the time being,
> until i finish setuping up the sf project page, the
> e-mail shown above will be used as an official e-mail
> of the project. Regarding project mailing list, I have
> already contacted the sourceforge guys and I'll send
> it to this mailing list as soon as i get a reponse
> from the sf guys. 
> 
> Any one interested in this project is always welcome
> to join us!!! 

Support for Tigrinya [ti] is most welcome in GNOME. I've added your name
and e-mail address to the teams page at
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/teams.html now. Please verify
that this listing is correct.

I've also sent a mail in private to you with a request for Bugzilla
details. Bugzilla is our bug tracker that we use for tracking bug
reports in software, and, in this case also translations. Please reply
to that mail as soon as possible. 

Other than that, please ask around on this mailing list or at the IRC
channel #i18n on irc.gnome.org if you need help getting started. An
introduction to the translation process can be found at
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/l10n-guide/.


I'd recommend starting with translating GNOME 2.10.
You can find a list of included software in GNOME 2.10 at the
translation status pages on http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.10/
under the "desktop" and "developer-libs" sections. Those are the things
to translate for full support of the official GNOME release.

You can get the potfiles to translate for GNOME 2.10, as an example,
from the http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.10/ia/developer-libs/ and
http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.10/ia/desktop/ pages.

You'll get your own
http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.10/ti/developer-libs/ and
http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.10/ti/desktop/ translation
statusages as soon as the first ti.po is committed to the GNOME cvs
repository. From that point on, you can use those "ti" translation
status pages alone.

Once you have translated some of the pot files referenced above, you can
send the resulting po files to me (or someone else with cvs access
willing to commit the files) and we'll try to put them into cvs for you.
Just make sure that the po files pass a test with "msgfmt -cvv
ti.po" without errors or warnings, that they're encoded in UTF-8, and
that you compress them using gzip before attaching them to the mail.
Or you can put the files on a web page somewhere, and we can fetch them
from there.

Once you've contributed a few translations this way, you can apply for a
cvs account of your own at
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/policies/accounts/, so that you can put
translations directly into cvs later on.

Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions!

Thanks, and welcome,

Christian