Re: Hausa Language Translation Project..

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

Mustapha, welcome to GNOME! :)

On 01/12/2006, at 10:49 PM, <mustapha Afimsoft com>  
<mustapha Afimsoft com> wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I am an author and also an entity relation officer working with a  
> software
>
> company in northern Nigeria.
>
> I have seen the language i.e. HAUSA LANGUAGE that we want to  
> contribute
>
> perfectly on, but the problem is that, we are mailing the group
>
> leader of the LANGUAGE TEAM for the past five months,a language  
> speaking widely in west Africa, but we
>
> didn’t received any response from him, we want to contribute to  
> humanity and
>
> time is going.

We have a procedure for dealing with broken contacts, so thankyou for  
notifying us. Our coordinator will advise you on what will happen next.

Five months is a long time: anyone who can't get in touch with their  
language team for more than a month (? two weeks?) should probably  
report it here. Communication is essential in maintaining a project  
like this. That's why it's often useful to nominate a backup contact- 
person for your language team, and include such extra contact  
information on your team webpage.
> HAUSA Language ISO 639-2 hau,   ISO 639-1 ha, English lang. name  
> hausa,  French lang. name haoussa.

Please add your plurals header to the Plurals page [1] in the  
Translate Wiki. This is a central resource for translators.
> We are using GNOME as our GUI and also we have read your  
> documentation hand book and several materials that will help
>
> us through the translation work.

Great work! If you haven't read all the information on our wiki page  
[2], please also use that as reference material.
> We will be very grateful we would have access to the cvs

There is information on our wiki page about applying for CVS access.  
There is quite a waiting list at present, so please apply as soon as  
possible. Meanwhile, even while waiting for contact to be established  
with your language-team, you can probably start work on some files. I  
notice that your language doesn't have separate status pages [3] yet,  
but you can check out modules anonymously and work on the POT files,  
or download the files from the English pages, and start working on  
them, if you like.

It is important to have your files reviewed before submitting them.  
Once you have completed, checked and reviewed files, even before you  
have CVS access, they can still be uploaded by volunteers here. Just  
upload your files to an accessible location (HTTP, FTP etc.), then  
email this list, include the link and ask for someone to upload your  
files.

This mailing list will strip attachments from messages, and in any  
case, it is not a good idea to send attachments to mailing lists, as  
you would realize, since everybody has to download them!
> We hope our request will be given due consideration.
It certainly will. Meanwhile, I hope this information gives you  
something to go on with.

Good luck with your translations! :)

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN

[1] http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/l10n/pluralforms#h
[2] http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject
[3] http://l10n-status.gnome.org/index.html

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