Re: Request for resolving situation(kn_IN)

[Pramod R <pramodleo yahoo co uk>]

Also, Please see this thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/gnome-i18n gnome org/msg06248.html

Vikram apparently took our own tranlsations (from sampada.net, another web based translation system we had earlier) and tried to get it commited through another co-ordinator.

----- Original Message ----
> From: Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>
> To: Vikram Vincent <vincentvikram gmail com>
> Cc: GNOME I18N List <gnome-i18n gnome org>; debian-l10n-kannada lists debian org
> Sent: Thursday, 13 March, 2008 6:18:20 PM
> Subject: Re: Request for resolving situation(kn_IN)
> 
> Le jeudi 13 mars 2008 à 17:52 +0530, Vikram Vincent a écrit :
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On 13/03/2008, Behdad Esfahbod  wrote:
> >         On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 17:33 +0530, Vikram Vincent wrote:
> >         >
> >         > Just a few weeks ago the stats for Kannada showed 16%
> >         > translated(anybody can verify this) and suddenly it jumped
> >         to 50%. Do
> >         > you know how much work you forced us to duplicate?
> >         
> >         
> >         Then there's a communication problem.  Is there a mailing list
> >         for your
> >         translation team?  If not, ask for one.  It wouldn't have
> >         prevented
> >         duplicate work if you were the coordinator either.
> > 
> > Pramod and Shankar are working on localisation as individuals. The
> > swatantra.org team is working as a *team*. We use Entrans at
> > http://translate.swatantra.org as our translation application.
> > There was also some work done by others in the past and most of them
> > are not active. And we have 2 mailing lists.
> > Personally, I am not ready to throw away this method of involving
> > people in the localisation process.
> 
> (As I am about to send my mail, I see that Gudmund has sent a similar
> mail, sending anyway :-)
> 
> If I understand correctly, you would like to enforce the use of your Web
> translation tool for all kn translations. I can imagine the sort of
> problems you may face where on one side some are committing translations
> directly in SVN and on the other side other people are working on the
> same translations through the Web tool.
> The problematic is somewhat similar to the Ubuntu Launchpad vs upstream
> GNOME.
> 
> I cannot see any optimal solution to this problem.
> One solution could be to divide the remaining work, and announce to the
> current coordinator the particular packages on which you want to work.
> You should then only open these packages for translation in your Web
> tool. When you're done, you send the po files to the coordinator (or
> commit if you get the permissions), and then announce another set of
> packages on which you'd like to work on in your team.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Claude
> 
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