Re: Addition of new system-tools-backends strings to Damned Lies

[Jorge González <aloriel gmail com>]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 09:43, Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net> wrote:
> Le jeudi 02 avril 2009 à 02:58 +0200, Carlos Garnacho a écrit :
>> Hi!,
>>
>> Just wanted to let you know that I've just added the s-t-b repo to
>> git.gnome.org, it's at:
>>
>> http://git.gnome.org/cgit/system-tools-backends-clone/
>>
>> I'll keep an eye on it and will be pushing translations to the
>> freedesktop repo.
>
> Many thanks Carlos. The module is now set up on l10n.g.o:
> http://l10n.gnome.org/module/system-tools-backends/
>
> I've reworked and committed the patch from Martin Pitt containing
> translations from Launchpad.
> Please, translators from bg, de, es, fi, hu, pl, pt_BR, ro, and sv,
> review the committed translations.

erm, only 4 strings? I guess this is some kind of error, isn't it?

Cheers.
>
> Claude
>
>> On lun, 2009-03-30 at 15:43 +0200, Claude Paroz wrote:
>> > Le lundi 30 mars 2009 à 14:32 +0200, Carlos Garnacho a écrit :
>> > > Hi!,
>> > >
>> > > On dom, 2009-03-29 at 21:18 +0200, Claude Paroz wrote:
>> > > > Le dimanche 29 mars 2009 à 15:11 +0200, David Planella a écrit :
>> > > > > Hi all,
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I just wanted to mention that after fixing this bug [1], there are a
>> > > > > few new strings in system-tools-backends which should be added to
>> > > > > Damned Lies.
>> > > >
>> > > > The problem is that s-t-b is not hosted on GNOME infrastructure. It used
>> > > > to have more translatable strings and the translation process was
>> > > > delegated to the Translation Project [3].
>> > > > So someone has to prepare a pre-release containing a pot file, submit it
>> > > > to the TP, wait some days so as translators can submit their work, get
>> > > > back the translations in the s-t-b repo, and release a new s-t-b
>> > > > version.
>> > > > Considering the time taken by the patch in #528015 to be committed, I
>> > > > have some doubts about the speed of the above process :-(
>> > > >
>> > > > An alternative would be to delegate the translation to GNOME
>> > > > translators, and we could send a tarball with translations to the s-t-b
>> > > > (ex)maintainer. Carlos, any thought?
>> > >
>> > > I think that GNOME repos moving to git will be really helpful here. Back
>> > > then, when I chose to use the TP, there were quite a lot of strings,
>> > > quite prone to changes/additions, and s-t-b used CVS, so it quite looked
>> > > like the best option.
>> > >
>> > > Nowadays such strings actually moved to frontends (gnome-system-tools)
>> > > and the PolicyKit strings are quite unlikely to change often. So we
>> > > could just set up a clone of s-t-b in GNOME git repos, and I could push
>> > > translations there into the fdo one.
>> >
>> > Nice plan!
>> >
>> > > >
>> > > > Claude
>> > > >
>> > > > [3] http://translationproject.org/domain/system-tools-backends.html
>> > > >
>> > > > > I do not know whether there will be time for that, but it might also
>> > > > > be worth thinking of releasing a new version of s-t-b with these
>> > > > > changes for 2.26.1, so that the translations are available to users.
>> > > > > At least one distro (Ubuntu [2]) has already patched and released
>> > > > > s-t-b.
>> > >
>> > > Hmm, if we're officially switching to git after 2.26.1, my proposal
>> > > above wouldn't work for this... I you're willing to do this, you can
>> > > send me translations (preferably using git-format-patch) and I'll apply
>> > > them ASAP in order to make a release for 2.26.1
>> >
>> > I'm sure sysadmins would be ok to create a s-t-b clone in the current
>> > git.gnome.org infrastructure, as other modules already did. I suggest
>> > you contact owen on #sysadmin pointing him on this thread.
>> > Then just tell us when the repo is set up.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Claude
>> >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Regards,
>> > > > > David.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528015
>> > > > > [2] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/system-tools-backends/+bug/207677/comments/6
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