2011 Q1 GNOME Quarterly Report

[Petr Kovar <pmkovar gnome org>]

Hi all,

here comes my proposal for a GNOME Localization update for the upcoming
2011 Q1 GNOME Quarterly Report. 

If you think something is not correct or missing, please feel free to share
your feedback and suggestions, or simply edit the text directly at:

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2011/Q1

Thanks!

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Localization

During this quarter, GNOME translation teams worked on delivering
localization support for GNOME 3, which was released on April 4 with more
than 50 fully supported languages. In comparison to previous development
cycles, the road to the GNOME 3.0.0 release was marked with many string
freeze breaks that occurred very late in the cycle so that translation
teams had to put extra effort into delivering high quality GNOME
translations.

GNOME translators also worked on localization support for additional
marketing resources related to GNOME 3, including the gnome3.org website.

In preparation for the 3.0.0 release, there was a module set reorganization
done in Damned Lies’ GNOME 3.0 release set in order to better match the
gnome-3.0 module set as maintained in JHBuild. Possible ways on how to
further improve the GNOME modules representation in Damned Lies were
discussed in the gnome-i18n mailing list.

Also, a new functionality was introduced to Damned Lies in that the service
now offers translators the so called reduced PO files; these files do not
include strings that are rarely visible to (end) users, such as
“gschema.xml.in” strings, making it easier for translation teams with
limited manpower to translate the GNOME modules. 


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Best,
Petr Kovar