Re: Creating a Bugzilla component for your language

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

OK, so, this was completely awesome, except that it has bug-buddy
spewing some errors by feeding 'invalid' characters to bug-buddy in the
component XML; I presume this'll only get worse as we try to add more
languages. Any idea what we can do about this, on either end?

Luis


On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 10:45, Christian Rose wrote:
> I've tried to contact GNOME translation team coordinators for the
> different languages about the topic in the attached mail, but
> unfortunately I haven't recieved a response yet from many team
> coordinators. If you are recieveing this mail, it's most likely because
> I haven't recieved a response from your team coordinator, as far as I
> know.
> 
> Please reply to me the details mentioned in the mail, so that we can add
> a GNOME Bugzilla component for your language.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Christian
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 
> From: Christian Rose <menthos@gnu.org>
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> Cc: Carlos Perelló Marín <carlos@gnome-db.org>
> Subject: Creating a Bugzilla component for your language
> Date: 24 Jan 2003 19:23:33 +0100
> 
> In GNOME Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/) we (and users) have the
> possibility to file bugs in translations, under the "l10n" product.
> Every language should have its own component under this product, but
> currently this isn't the case
> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=l10n). I'm
> writing to you as you're listed as language coordinator, and your
> language currently lacks a component.
> In order to add a component for your language, we need to know the
> following information:
> 
> * language code
> * language name (in English)
> * default owner (must be a valid bugzilla account)
>     The default owner is the person who should be assigned the bugs by
>     default. If he or she doesn't have a bugzilla account, he or she can
>     create one at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/createaccount.cgi.
> * default qa contact (must be a valid bugzilla account)
>     The default QA contact is usually the person who should make sure
>     the bug was fixed properly by the assignee. If the qa contact person
>     doesn't yet have a bugzilla account, he or she can create one at
>     http://bugzilla.gnome.org/createaccount.cgi. This field is optional,
>     you don't need to decide on a default qa contact if you don't want
>     to.
> * component description
>     Usually of the form "Here you can place your bugs about
>     $LANGUAGENAME [$LANGUAGECODE] translations". Example: "Here you can
>     place your bugs about Swedish [sv] translations".
>     If you have the possibility, try also to translate this into
>     ASCII-only English, and we'll use the translation as well.
> 
> If you want, there's also the possibility to use a mailing list instead
> of an individual for the default owner and/or default qa contact fields.
> It's a bit more complicated; among other things you need access to the
> mailing list configuration. Here is what you should do if you want a
> mailing list in one or both of the fields above:
> 
> 1) Create a bugzilla account for your mailing list, i.e. a Bugzilla
> account with your list's address as account name.
> 2) Subscribe the bugzilla deamon address
> (bugzilla-daemon@widget.gnome.org) to your mailing list, but also
> disable *ALL* mail from the mailing list to this address (If it's a
> Mailman mailing list you can change bugzilla-daemon@widget.gnome.org's
> mailing list options to NOMAIL).
> 
> 
> Once you have all the required information (and have configured your
> mailing list according to the above if you want to use a mailing list),
> please send this information to me.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Christian
>