Re: How to contribute for the translations that we did

[Guntupalli Karunakar <karunakar indlinux org>]

Hi, 
 I looked into some Hindi files,  had few comments
- I think it would have been nice if we had known what you'll were
doing in advance, since it would have helped in completing
translations for upcoming release ( 2.22 ).
- while more contributions & new translators are always welcome, its
good to drop a mail to an existing team, that they are taking up some
modules for translation/completion.
- possibly give the reference POT or orinigal PO files also, which
were used for these translations, so we can figure out the
differences or what new stuff is added and need to be reviewed.
- advanced intimation would help in future work, since we recently
had one Hindi review workshop ( 7,8th March ) in Delhi and would have
been nice to have your translators also to be part of it, so we could
have assessed the work better.

For Hindi atleast I would request the translators who did this work
to come forward ( so people know them for their efforts ), they join
indlinux-hindi list (
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indlinux-hindi ).

Lastly while getting translations to a complete status is important
but not the only thing, in the long run maintaining them along with
feedback from users is what matters more, building a community around
it is more important than just trying to have isolated work pushed
upstream.

(PS: I am yet to see a post on indlinux-group list abt your work or
assuming that you have tried to contact others in the list of names
below)

Regards,
Karunakar

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:36:21 +0000
Simos Xenitellis wrote:

> nirupama rout wrote:
> > Hi there
> >
> > Check This link
> >
> > http://downloads.bosslinux.in/Translated_Po_files/
> >
> > where I have uploaded some language translated po files.Need to
> > know the feedback and let me know if i can proceed.
> >
> Thanks for the e-mail. It is great to see completed work.
> I will post some comments for the translations in a separate e-mail.
> 
> As I mentioned in the previous e-mail, some of the languages
> already have a translation coordinator.
> You need to contact each of these coordinators so that you can
> arrange how best to add the files.
> This is very important; you must get in communication with the 
> coordinator on how to add the work.
> I have already included in the CC: the coordinators for the six 
> languages that have a team,
> 
> Telugu, Sunil Mohan
> http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/te
> 
> Maithili, Rajesh Ranjan
> http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/mai
> 
> Urdu,    Muhammad Waqas Alam
> http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/ur
> 
> Malayalam, Peter Ani,
> http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/ml
> 
> Hindi, Guntupalli Karunakar
> http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/hi
> 
> Kannada, Pramod Raghavendra
> http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/kn
> 
> Please note that some of the work has already been translated.
> Merging two different translations of the same program is a bit of
> work. This might give some trouble. That's why we recommend to get
> in contact with the existing team coordinator early and translate
> together.
> 
> All the best,
> Simos Xenitellis
> Greek translation team
> >
> > Regars
> > Nirupama Nayana Rout
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- On *Wed, 5/3/08, Simos
> > Xenitellis /<simos lists googlemail com>/* wrote:
> >
> >     From: Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com>
> >     Subject: Re: Hoe to contribute for the translations that we
> > did To: nayanarout1233 yahoo co in
> >     Cc: gnome-list gnome org
> >     Date: Wednesday, 5 March, 2008, 5:34 PM
> >
> >     nirupama rout wrote:
> >     > Thank you for your reply.
> >     >
> >     > I also asked about presentation tool package that we have
> >     > developed using keyjnote(a python coded script).please
> >     > refer to
> >     >
> >     >
> >     http://packages.bosslinux.in/boss/pool/anant/main/b/boss-presentation-tool/
> >     >
> >     > for details about that package and its installation.Will
> >     > gnome accept it under its any of the section.
> >     >
> >     > Features it has are:
> >     >
> >     > *Nice frontend
> >     > *more than 5 transitions of the page
> >     > *selects pdf,odt,images for presentation
> >     > *we can select the time stamp for each page
> >     > *All pages can be
> >      viewed together(keyjnote feature)
> >     > *can select any page at any point of presentation(keyjnote
> >     > feature)
> >     >
> >     To add the boss-presentation tool to GNOME SVN, please follow
> > the instructions at
> >     http://live.gnome.org/NewSVNRepos
> >     The same page includes a list of prerequisites for the
> > inclusion of new projects.
> >
> >     Once the package gets hosted on GNOME SVN, send a new e-mail
> > here so that we can add it in the GNOME Extras group. In this
> > way, the translation file will appear at
> >     http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/hi/gnome-extras  (example for
> > Hindi) Then, individual translators may translate in their own
> > language.
> >
> >     You will be able to view full translation statistics for your
> > tool at http://l10n.gnome.org/module/phonemgr 
> >     (this is an example of another project).
> >
> >     Simos Xenitellis
> >
> >     >
> >     > Regars
> >     > Nirupama Nayana Rout
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > --- On *Wed, 5/3/08, Simos
> >      Xenitellis
> >     /<simos lists googlemail com>/* 
> >     > wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     From: Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com>
> >     >     Subject: Re: Hoe to contribute for the translations
> >     > that we did To: nayanarout1233 yahoo co in
> >     >     Cc: gnome-list gnome org
> >     >     Date: Wednesday, 5 March, 2008, 4:03 PM
> >     >
> >     >     nirupama rout wrote:
> >     >     > Hi
> >     >     >
> >     >     > We have translated the gnome files in some of the
> >     >     > indian
> >     languages and 
> >     >     > want to contribute to the gnome community,how to do
> >     >     > that. The languages in which we have translated
> >     >      are:
> >     >     >
> >     >     >
> >     >    
> >     Hindi,tamil,telugu,urdu,konkani,marathi,oriya,bengali,gujarati,punjabi,kannada
> >     >     >
> >     >     > We also have developed a nice front end for
> >     >     > presentation tool ie keyjnote.Earlier keyjnote did
> >     >     > not have  a
> >      front end to sleect the
> >     file 
> >     >     > and browse for transitions and many more things.What
> >     >     > I need to do
> >     to 
> >     >     > upload the package to upstream.Can this conme under
> >     >     > gnome.
> >     >     >
> >     >     > Help me out,Otherwise will be become a rework for the
> >     >     > community.
> >     >     >
> >     >     >
> >     >     > Regars
> >     >     > Nirupama Nayana Rout
> >     >     >
> >     >     >
> >     >     This is great news!
> >     >
> >     >     Visit the page at http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/ and
> >     > you will be
> >     able 
> >     >     to see the project page for some of the languages that
> >     > you mention. If
> >     a 
> >     >     language has a page, then there is a coordinator for
> >     > the language. For example, for Hindi, the coordinator is Mr
> >     > Karunakar. For these languages, you should contact the
> >     > coordinator and offer the
> >     translations
> >     >      
> >     >     to them to upload. You can find the coordinator
> >      e-mail address at each
> >
> >     >     language page.
> >     >
> >     >     For languages that do not exist at
> >     >     http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/
> >     >     you can simply apply to become a translation
> >     > coordinator. Follow the instructions at
> >     >     http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/JoiningTranslation
> >     >
> >     >     Please remember that it requires involvement and
> >     > communication to get
> >     in 
> >     >     contact with the existing language teams and contribute
> >     > the
> >     translation 
> >     >     work.
> >     >     Feel free to ask any further questions here.
> >     >
> >     >     Cheers,
> >     >     Simos Xenitellis
> >     >
> >     >
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