Re: New teams for Gong (kdm), Hyam (jab), Jju (kaj), Tyap (tya)

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

ons 2005-06-22 klockan 11:02 -0700 skrev nne mmanwu:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to announce the following new teams:
> 
> Gong (kdm)
> Hyam (jab)
> Jju (kaj)
> Tyap (kcg)

I assume these are the ISO 639-3 codes (http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/)
you mentioned. ISO 639-3 appears to still be a draft international
standard though... and changing to use other language codes later when
we have already incorporated translations into CVS would be painful.

However, using these codes is probably the safest option right now, and
they seem at least semi-reliable to use for identifying the languages.
So you should probably use those codes if you want to contribute
translations.

ISO 639-3 appears to use the following names for these languages:

kdm	Kagoma	http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?code=kdm
jab	Hyam	http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?code=jab
kaj	Jju	http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?code=kaj
kcg	Tyap	http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?code=kcg

I'm going to use those language names in the translation status pages
(i.e. I will use "Kagoma", not "Gong"). If you're not happy with that,
please try to convince the registration authority to change the name,
and then we can change it in GNOME as well after that has happened.


Anyway, support for Kagoma [kdm], Hyam [jab], Jju [kaj], and Tyap [kcg]
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 2.12.
You can find a list of included software in GNOME 2.12 at the
translation status pages on http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.12/
under the "desktop" and "developer-libs" sections. Those are the things
to translate for full support of the official GNOME release. Note that
GNOME 2.12 is not final yet; modules and messages may still be added
and/or changed. You can see the GNOME 2.12 development schedule at
http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/TwoPointEleven.

You can get the potfiles to translate for GNOME 2.12, as an example,
from the http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.12/ku/developer-libs/ and
http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.12/ku/desktop/ pages.

You'll get your own translation status pages as soon as the first
kdm.po, jab.po, kaj.po, and kcg.po is committed to the GNOME cvs
repository, respectively. From that point on, you can use those
translation status pages alone. The translation status pages will then
be availiable at the following addresses:

http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.12/kdm/developer-libs/
http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.12/kdm/desktop/

http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.12/jab/developer-libs/
http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.12/jab/desktop/

http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.12/kaj/developer-libs/
http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.12/kaj/desktop/

http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.12/kcg/developer-libs/
http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.12/kcg/desktop/

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
filename.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