> A friend of mine wants to start translating the GNOME user guide. ... Hi Arangel,
I am writing to you and cc-ing the gnome doc list to make sure that if I mess something up, there will be someone to raise objections. This will be a simple description - in order to have it in the mail archives and reuse it if necessary. OK. In order to start the translation you need to do these things: 1. Subscribe to [email protected] and announce your intentions. http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list 2. Get the originals of the documentation: If you have a committers account: CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -d:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/gnome co gnome-user-docs If you do not: cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/gnome co gnome-user-docs More info on using GNOME CVS as translator here: http://developer.gnome.org/tools/cvs.html If you do not have a committers account and you want to start a translation: get one *NOW* and I mean it. http://developer.gnome.org/doc/policies/accounts/requesting.html Web interface to the CVS repo is here: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-user-docs/ 3. Generate po files. cd gnome-user-docs/gnome2-user-guide/ mkdir mk # your 2-letter language code cd mk xml2po -l mk -e -o mk.po ../C/*xml Check the output of xml2po --help and man xml2po I would also recommend that you have separate po-files for each xml file of the user guide. So you generate them like this: for i in ../C/*.xml; do xml2po -e -o `basename $i.xml .xml`.po $i; done Keep and work on these files (maybe in a staging repo somewhere) and then merge them back to the original mk.po file mentioned above. 4. Commit as early as possible. Do *not* over-rely on a different system (for example a wiki) for the sources will soon drift apart and whoever gets to merge will be in a dire position. If you need to make such compromises - merge often! I still have no time to merge our translations back to GNOME CVS. 5. Pay some attention to the pictures. They go into the mk/figures directory When you add them: cvs add -kb blah-blah.png Kind regards: al_shopov > A friend of mine wants to start translating the GNOME user guide. I see > that you already have it translated into Bulgarian so I wanted to ask > you if that's the latest version of the user guide, I couldn't find > anything that seems to be new in GNOME's CVS. I also couldn't find a PO > file, I suppose it's somehow converted from an xml file or something... > anyhow.. I would appreciate it if you can spare a few minutes to ligthen > up things for me. _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
