On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 14:48 +0100, Danilo Šegan wrote: > Hi Nickolay, Bob, > > Today at 10:57, Nickolay V. Shmyrev wrote: > > > And just a note, please stop modifications of release note, it's > > really hard to update translations every hour. Probably we need doc > > freeze timeline for the next release cycle. > > Release notes are not part of other docs stuff: they just use the same > technology. Unfortunately, we had entirely new bunch of editors for > them this round (Bob Kashani), and they were not very gentle to > translators (probably due to misunderstandings: IMO, it's better to > have less than perfect English version, and 23 translations [as we had > last year], than excellent English version, and no [or 2] complete > translations).
The Release Notes are now frozen. There will be no more changes unless we find something glaring (which I really doubt). But I will mail the list if any changes need to be made. I also want to apologize to all the translators for making changes so late in the process. This is completely my fault. I didn't completely understanding how the whole translations process was done. > I offered to do simple corrections in en.po for them, but I guess we'd > need more explaining for Bob to understand what it means and how is it > done. Though, it's also explained in the "Typos" section on > > http://live.gnome.org/ReleaseNotes/Translating > > > Bob, you can simply "translate" the parts which have errors to those > with corrections, and PO file format is simple. Grab untranslated one > from > > http://kvota.net/doc-l10n/PO/release-notes.HEAD.pot > > (it's periodically regenerated, so you may need to wait for it to > change when you change XML source, which is why you shouldn't change > XML source anymore ;), and search for things you want to correct in > msgid's and enter it in corresponding msgstr. Once you update it, > commit it as en.po according to > > http://live.gnome.org/ReleaseNotes/Translating > > and put any additional corrections there. Ok, I'll add en. I've never done a translation before so if I have any questions I'll be sure to ask. :) Bob -- Bob Kashani GARNOME Project http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
