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

[Carlos Garnacho <carlos imendio com>]

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.

> 
> 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

> > 
> > 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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