Dear Gnash-devs,

I very much believe that one of the simplest ways to expand your user-base
is to add new languages to your L10n.  A small fraction of those users may
become contributors, so it can help with recruiting developers as well.  I
am quite happy to facilitate the L10n of Gnash via hosting on our Pootle
instance, but I am curious as to why Gnash does not take advantage of
hosting L10n on the Gnome Damned Lies server.

http://l10n.gnome.org/

I must imagine that the Gnome 18n team would surely recognize Gnash as a
sister effort within the GNU Project and make hosting available along with
access to the large number of L10n teams working via Damned Lies.  It would
certainly be no insult to the Sugar Labs team if Gnash chose to migrate L10n
hosting there.  As a matter of fact, we encourage our localizers to work on
a whole variety of upstream packages by providing a "tracking ticket" type
Pootle project:

http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/upstream_l10n/

Each file in this project is not for translation in and of itself, but for
providing a link to the upstream home of the package's L10n effort and for
tracking their completion to focus our upstream contributions where they are
needed.

In the case of Gnome, Claude Paroz of the Gnome i18n team has kindly
provided Sugar Labs / OLPC with a "release set" allowing us to track the
bits pulled into Sugar and the OLPC Gnome dual-boot builds so it is very
easy for our localizers to identify upstream work that will "trickle down".

http://l10n.gnome.org/releases/olpc/

If Gnash were to host L10n on Damned Lies, I would just add it to the list
of packages in the OLPC release set.  I would of course work to facilitate
the migration of any strings completed on our Pootle instance to Damned Lies
hosting should such a choice be made by Gnash developers.  In any event, we
will continue to offer hosting PO file hosting and periodic updates of the
templates on the Sugar Labs Poolte instance until the Gnash community
decides it would like to pursue other arrangements.  Just something to think
about.

Warmest Regards,

cjl
Sugar Labs Translation team Coordinator
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