On Sun, May 15, 2011 9:14 pm, Chris Leonard wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2011 , Martin Sevior <[email protected]> wrote: > > On behalf of the abiword community I invite speakers of Marovo and > other Pacific Island languages to contact us on the abiword-dev > mailing lists (see http://www.abisource.com/developers/) so that we > can explain how to make a Marovo translation of AbiWord and Write.
Please also have them contact me. I have just signed up to be the primary contact for new translators. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Getting_Involved#Translator > Martin, > > As you may know, we have long been pointing localizers at AbiWord and > other > upstream projects: > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Translation_Team/Pootle_Projects#AbiWord > > The reality is that there can be a certain inertia that makes it hard to > move localizers from one system (Pootle) to another method of submitting > (offline PO files and mailing list submission); nevermind the multiple > processes needed to get the upstream fully localized. Another advantage > is > that Pootle offers excellent on-line QA tools (e.g. msgfmt checks) and > other > affordances (slow accumulation of strings is possible, collaboration > workflow is enhanced, etc.). > > I'd like to make a proposal for collaboration on L10n (one made to and > accepted by other upstream and downstream projects like GNASH and > Waveplace). We can host an "unofficial" set of PO files for AbiWord on > our > Pootle server. It probably makes sense to do so in this project: > > http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/upstream_POT/ > > This would *not* replace AbiWord's established process (submitting to the > abi-dev mailing list), it would serve to complement it. We would *not* > attempt to establish the commit connection from Pootle used for locally > hosted projects, that would remain a manual AbiWord process and AbiWord > would remain in control of final commits and repo archiving; our Pootle > server would merely be an optional collaboration tool. > > We can establish any additional language projects needed and upload your > existing 2.9.x and 2.8.x PO files. > > What do you think? Feel free to repost this to abi-dev for comment and > discussion with your community. > > cjl > volunteer Sugar Labs / OLPC / eToys Pootle admin > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
