Re: rosetta

[Abel Cheung <abelcheung gmail com>]

On 7/3/05, Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au> wrote:
> > anything you translate for rosseta will have no effect to GTP.
> > Sadly it only affects ubuntu distribution unless you take the
> > responsibility to bring it back to GTP.
> 
> I don't know whether they've improved the currency, but I put a lot
> of work into translating the huge Gaim file on Rosetta, only to find
> the current file, 75% translated, on Pootle. Boy, was I peeved!

There is another problem too: are software maintainers incorporating
your translation? This is less likely a problem for GNOME/KDE, since all
po files / documents are committed into CVS/SVN, and they will be used
IF maintainers upload new tarball for releases. But for other translation
projects (including TP), that's a problem. Translations may end up
sitting there, never incorporated into tarball if software maintainers
don't care.

Abel

> 
> Currency is a big issue: if you're translating anything away from the
> main Gnome (KDE, Debian etc.) project, you want to make sure you have
> the current file, or you can waste a lot of time translating
> something that won't be used. :(
> 
> With Pootle, you can upload the current files you've taken from your
> l10n page, and they're working towards CVS/SVN dynamic checkout and
> commits.
> 
> from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhÃm
> Viát hÃa phán mám tá do)
> 
> Clytie Siddall--Renmark, in the Riverland of South Australia
> 
> á thÃnh phá Renmark, tái mián sÃng cáa Nam Ãc
> 
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