Re: Inactive Translation Team

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

Ar ddydd Gwe, Aws 20 2010, 18:46:29 +0100, ysgrifennodd Christopher Swift:

> [Gnome in Welsh declining]

Yeah, we do seem to be going through a bad patch in gnome-cy. Still.
A number of us got together last summer and said "we have to get on
top of this". Iestyn Price got a git account (with Daf's support) and 
I dusted mine off, and I suspect Rhys Jones may still have his. I 
emailed a bunch of interested people and Iestyn tried to kick-start 
the gnome-cy gnome org mailing list and then...well, nothing much 
happened. So there are at least two of us and possibly three with git 
accounts. And there is (or was) a lot of interest in contributing.

I know Rhys has been very busy this year. I presume the same is true 
of Iestyn. I am also in the "very busy" camp; and further, I still do 
not understand how to use git and being pointed to out-of-date wiki 
pages doesn't help. 

I am happy to wade through long .po files; I am happy to feed things 
through Cysill (the spelling and grammar checker for Welsh); I am 
happy to start filing "what does this _mean_?" bugs again; I am happy 
to compare terminology between different programs. I am willing to 
glance at what other people do, and I am very happy to have everything 
I do corrected. (Okay, not happy, but...) But whenever I get a free hour, 
I find myself wasting it trying to check out a git tree, and that's not 
what I need or want to be doing. 

I am, however, very keen that the translation doesn't deteriorate 
further. So I do encourage anyone interested in sorting the Welsh
translation out who is currently lurking quietly to go and join 
gnome-cy gnome org  Then perhaps we can get this back on the road. 

Telsa (still here, just quieter!)