MyPaint is well on its way to feature and string freeze, but we mustn't leave libmypaint in a poorly translated state.
Short form: please help translate MyPaint: https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/mypaint/ Long form: I've set up a hub for translating MyPaint-related projects on WebLate, an online translation tool[1] that anyone can log into with a facebook, google or github account (or a local one, or others beside). It ticks all the boxes I've though of - comments, contexts visible when translating, the ability to contribute suggestions, tight integration with github - and I'm really happy with what I've seen so far. Currently only libmypaint is integrated (it's pretty much stable already), but I am hoping that MyPaint itself can join it shortly. If you're fluent in a language other than English, or know a FOSS-friendly person who is, you can help out with the translation effort. Please share the link above as widely as you can, or dive in yourself and start translating brush setting texts. It's a surprisingly simple workflow: you translate program texts one at a time resolving any discrepancies and correcting problems the system has discovered. Each text has a link back to the source code too, if you want to see where it was set up. At the end of translating into your language you get a nice fully green progress bar, a glowing sense of satisfaction, and your email address in the commit log :D The advantage to the MyPaint project of using a system like WebLate is the ability to continuously integrate and update translations. Having a side-by-side comparison of all the languages doesn't hurt either - plus we get another shiny github badge for the project. If you have the inclination to help out and good language skills, we'd really appreciate your assistance. Helping to translate a project is a really great way of learning about how it works internally, and it's one of the easiest and most effective ways of getting involved in the Free/Open Source culture and putting great software into people's hands, worldwide. [1] Kindly hosted for us by its developer, Michal Čihař, free for FOSS projects upon review. -- Andrew Chadwick _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
