Re: New team for Yoruba (unknown code).

["Abayomi Onibudo" <bonibz hotmail com>]

Hi,

i will like to thank the group for the speedy reply and accepting the Yoruba 
translation project.   I wanted to let you know that i checked the teams 
page (http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/teams.html) but was not able 
to locate the name and email of the coordinator.  Also, going forwar, could 
you please use my full name as below.

Name: Abayomi Mobolaji Onibudo
email:bonibz hotmail com

Thanks


Bolaji


> From: Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>
> To: Abayomi Onibudo <bonibz hotmail com>
> CC: GNOME I18N List <gnome-i18n gnome org>
> Subject: Re: New team for Yoruba (unknown code).
> Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 01:05:29 +0200
>
> fre 2004-05-14 klockan 19.55 skrev Abayomi Onibudo:
> > The name and the email of the person who is the new coordinator for the
> > language (Yoruba) is as below.
> >
> > Name of coordinator:  Mobolaji Onibudo
> > email: bonibz hotmail com
>
> As Tomas already pointed out, the two-letter language code for Yoruba is
> "yo".
>
> Support for Yoruba (yo) is most welcome in GNOME. I've added your
> name and e-mail address to the teams page at
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/teams.html now. Please verify
> that this listing is correct.
>
> I'll also send a mail in private to you with a request for bugzilla
> details. Please reply to that mail as soon as possible.
>
> Other than that, please ask around on this mailing list or at the IRC
> channel #i18n on irc.gnome.org if you need help getting started. An
> introduction to the translation process can be found at
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/l10n-guide/.
>
>
> For a new team I'd recommend starting with translating GNOME 2.8, even
> though it is not yet decided what modules it will contain and what
> messages it will include. But soon it will be (see the schedule at
> http://www.gnome.org/start/2.7/), and you can start translating right
> away now with our best guess of what GNOME 2.8 will almost likely
> contain.
>
> You can find a list of possibly included software in GNOME 2.8 at the
> translation status pages on
> http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.8/ under the "desktop" and
> "developer-libs" sections. Those are the things to translate for full
> support of the official GNOME release.
>
> You can get the potfiles to translate for GNOME 2.8, as an example, from
> the http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.8/kw/developer-libs/ and
> http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.8/kw/desktop/ pages. Once there has
> been some Yoruba translations committed to CVS, you'll automatically get
> seperate translation status pages for this language at the following
> links:
> http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.8/yo/developer-libs/
> http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.8/yo/desktop/
>
> I'd recommend starting right away with GNOME 2.8 if possible, since it's
> a big job to translate GNOME in full. Please note though that the list
> of included software is not finalized yet, so there will be some
> changes.
>
> Once you have translated some of the pot files referenced above, you can
> send the resulting po files to me (or someone else with cvs access
> willing to do comit the files) and we'll try to put them into cvs for
> you. Just make sure that the po files pass a test with "msgfmt -cvv
> yo.po" without errors, that they're encoded in UTF-8, and that you
> compress them using gzip before attaching them to the mail. Or you can
> put the files on a web page somewhere, and we can fetch them from there.
>
> Once you've contributed a few translations this way, we can arrange a
> cvs account for you, so that you can put translations directly into cvs
> later on.
>
> Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions!
>
>
> Thanks, and welcome,
>
> Christian