Re: GNOME I18n Team update, comments

[Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com>]

Thank you all for the comments.

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Christian Rose<menthos gnome org> wrote:
> On 7/28/09, Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>>  Stormy (our executive director, GNOME Foundation) sent an e-mail to
>>  the teams to produce reports of the efforts
>>  for Q2 (April, May, June) of 2009, so that a report can be produced,
>>  similar to what KDE does at
>>  http://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-quarterly-2008Q3-Q4.pdf
>>  Among the multiple benefits of such a report is to communicate further our work.
>>
>>  Stormy nominated me this time to write the text for GNOME I18n. Here
>>  is the text.
>>  Any comments are highly appreciated.
>>  The final text needs to reach Stormy before the 31st July.
>>
>>  “The GNOME I18n team coordinated the translation effort for GNOME
>>  2.26, which was made available on
>>  March/April 2009. Linux distributions such as Fedora Linux 11 and
>>  Ubuntu Linux 9.04 offer the new localised GNOME.
>>  GNOME 2.26 now supports 48 languages, compared to 45 languages in the
>>  previous release.
>>  After the release of GNOME 2.26, GNOME migrated to the Git version
>>  control system for the management of the source code. The GNOME I18n
>>  team is helping during the migration to Git with dedicated
>>  documentation for translators and support through the mailing list.”

“The GNOME I18n team coordinated the translation effort for GNOME 2.26,
which was made available on March/April 2009. Linux distributions such
as Fedora 11 and
Ubuntu 9.04 offer the new localised GNOME.

GNOME 2.26 supports 48 languages in total, compared to 45 languages in the
previous release.

After the release of GNOME 2.26, GNOME migrated to the Git version
control system for the management of the source code. The GNOME I18n
team is helping during the migration to Git with thorough documentation for
translators and dedicated support through the mailing list.”

Changed:
1. Fedora Linux 11 -> Fedora 11
2. Ubuntu Linux 9.04 -> Ubuntu 9.04
3. Rephrased language support so that it highlights to total number of
languages.
We should add to our 'TODO' list an effort to get those languages that
slipped to 'unsupported'
to become supported again.
4. Removed 'dedicated documentation' per Kenneth's suggestion.

>>
>>  Here is a short blurb for the plans for Q3:
>>
>>  “Complete implementation of git commit support through l10n.gnome.org.
>>  Complete implementation of git repository management program.
>>  Continue providing git help to translators as soon as asked”.

1. Complete implementation of git commit support through l10n.gnome.org.
[Asked Owen during GUADEC, said to contact Sri. E-mailed Sri, cc:
gnome-infrastructure, gnome-i18n].

2. Complete implementation of git repository management program.
[Work in progress, Og is assisting greatly.]

3. Continue providing git help to translators as soon as asked”.

4. Contact team coordinators for languages that are about to slip from
'Supported' status.

Simos