Re: Special request for priority

[Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress gmail com>]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Gil Forcada <gforcada gnome org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Not to give stop energy, but I tried to pester the webkitgtk team during
> the last Desktop Summit, but as the layout was not is completely
> different from the usual GNOME modules, intltool and everything else
> involved on that, seems to be not much cooperative.
>
> Still, more pushing from us will eventually make the switch turn and
> have proper localization suport on webkitgtk, which I fully agree is
> more and more important as days go by.

Well, I'm staging a sit-in on #webkitgtk+ , if anyone wants to join me
we can call it
occupy webkit"   :-)

In all seriousness, it is quite important to us downstream at Sugar
Labs, and as you probably know by now, I'm not shy about
upstream-downstream dialog, so I did drop into their IRC channel today
and bugged them about a few things.   I got a response from mrobinson
(see below) , I will hang out to see if I can follow-up.

cjl	hello, who manages the webkitgtk+ webpage?

cjl	http://webkitgtk.org/?page=contribute Really should list
Translating as a way to contribute and reference the Damned Lies page
http://l10n.gnome.org/module/webkit/

cjl	Also it would be very nice if someone would address
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81969 as it is a major blocker
for translation (and therefore a major impediment to "market
penetration" for WebKitGTK+ based tools.

mrobinson	cjl: Would switching to intltools fix all these errors?
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45321

cjl	mrobinson-afk: possibly switching to intltools would help, I can't
be sure. On the Sugar Labs Pootle instance we do a lot with symlinks
that works out okay.

cjl	mrobinson-afk: I would suggest posing the question to the
gnome-i18n ML, where you will get a more informed opinion, I'm sure.

cjl	Part of it may also require editing the .skip file, but at this
point it is so badly broken that experimentation can't disrupt it.

cjl
Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator