Thanks Laura. I'm surprised, as this is the first I've heard of this need, yet the thread goes back to 13th June. It must have begun on a non-development mailing list.
OLPC can provide advice for any developers making a custom build for XO laptops. The advice is part of our normal practices. To ensure the latest translations are in a build, the steps are; - translations to be pushed from pootle to github; Chris Leonard has that in hand, - each desired activity to be released; some of that I've been doing, but the team asking for this must give us a list of activities, - Sugar and Toolkit to be released; blocked on a maintainer, such as Ignacio, releasing a point version like 0.110.1, maintenance being an unresolved issue at this point, - custom packages of Sugar and Toolkit to be released, usually by me at OLPC, ... and it is possible to bypass the maintainer if there isn't one. Chris is correct that a glibc locale file will be needed for any new language. I'll need his advice on that! You are correct that a custom SoaS build with updated translations would be useful; I'll go further; it is the only way to get the new translations into SoaS without waiting for the next Fedora release. On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 06:13:32PM -0500, Laura Vargas wrote: > FYI on 2017-06-20 MOTION 2017-11 has failed: > > Proposed by Laura Vargas, seconded by Samson Goddy [1][1] > > "Sugar Labs will allocate a budget (To Be Defined) for "professional > services" required to create a fitable image for Samson's and Ibiam's > young > XO partners in Africa. Sugar Labs will make an open call to the mailing > list to find one or more professional to do it." > > (2 in favor, 5 abstain). > > I updated the wiki [1]. > > Regards and blessings, > Laura V > > [1] [2]https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions > > 2017-06-14 14:26 GMT-05:00 Chris Leonard <[3][email protected]>: > > Let me know how many plural forms (nplurals) and how they are applied > (plural equation) and I'll set up a project for Efik (lang-efi) in > Pootle. We'll need to develop a glibc locale file before deploying, > but that is not overly challenging. > > [4]http://docs.translatehouse.org/projects/localization-guide/en/latest/ > l10n/pluralforms.html > > cjl > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Chihurumnaya Ibiam > <[5][email protected]> wrote: > > I think we can also work on Efik, because from what i know that's where > > there's a high number of XO's still in use in schools -- i think over a > > thousand --, so it can also be included in the build. > > > > Ibiam Chihurumnaya > > > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:16 PM, Laura Vargas > <[6][email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> 2017-06-13 15:13 GMT-05:00 Walter Bender <[7][email protected]>: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Samson Goddy <[8] > [email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> But is it okay if we have both build for Sugar on Stick and XO? > Laura? > >> > >> > >> > >> I do hope there is someone interested on releasing a SOAS build that > >> includes all translations available for Sugar. > >> > >> Still, this is out of the scope of this motion. > >>> > >>> > >>> No reason why not, now that CJL confirms that the appropriate strings > are > >>> in place. > >>> > >>> > >>> (Not sure why we need a motion for it.) > >> > >> > >> If SLOBs does not make this decision, Nigerian learners won't have > access > >> to an updated XO build that includes Igbo and Yoruba translations. > >> > >> Now that the motion has been seconded by Samson, SLOBS can start > voting. > >> > >> My vote is +1. > >> > >> Regards and blessings, > >> > >> Laura V > >> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Samson G > >>>> > >>>> On Jun 13, 2017 3:06 PM, "Chris Leonard" > <[9][email protected]> > >>>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:02 AM, David Ally > <[10][email protected] > > > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>> > Dear All, > >>>>> > I once requested for the handle on these Nigerian translations > and > >>>>> > was told > >>>>> > it was not yet in the main build, so I guess this is the main > >>>>> > obstacle in > >>>>> > the way of learners accessing the contents, it is important if we > can > >>>>> > have > >>>>> > those two translations all possible publicly available builds, so > >>>>> > that > >>>>> > people like us can make case for their use in many fora in > Nigeria. > >>>>> > > >>>>> > I support any effort in this direction. +1 > >>>>> > > >>>>> > Regards! > >>>>> > David > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Our current holdings in Nigerian localization can be found on our > >>>>> Pootle server. > >>>>> > >>>>> Yoruba > >>>>> [11]https://translate.sugarlabs.org/yo/ > >>>>> > >>>>> Igbo > >>>>> [12]https://translate.sugarlabs.org/ibo/ > >>>>> > >>>>> The vast majority of these translations have been committed to their > >>>>> respective Github repos, to the extent that new versions of those > >>>>> activities have been released since those commits, the translations > >>>>> are now present in ASLO. > >>>>> > >>>>> The core UI strings (sugar, sugar-toolkit-gtk3, OLPC_switch_laptop) > >>>>> have also been committed, but to get them visible to users a new > build > >>>>> will be required. That would either be a new SOAS build or possibly > a > >>>>> custom build as proposed by Laura. > >>>>> > >>>>> cjl > >>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > >>>>> [13][email protected] > >>>>> [14]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > >>>> [15][email protected] > >>>> [16]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Walter Bender > >>> Sugar Labs > >>> [17]http://www.sugarlabs.org > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Laura V. > >> I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org > >> > >> “Solo la tecnología libre nos hará libres.” > >> ~ Laura Victoria > >> > >> Happy Learning! > >> #LearningByDoing > >> #Projects4good > >> #IDesignATSugarLabs > >> #WeCanDoBetter > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > >> [18][email protected] > >> [19]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > > [20][email protected] > > [21]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > -- > Laura V. > I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org > > “Solo la tecnología libre nos hará libres.” > ~ Laura Victoria > > Happy Learning! > #LearningByDoing > #Projects4good > #IDesignATSugarLabs > #WeCanDoBetter > > References: > > [1] https://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2017-June/019872.html > [2] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions > [3] mailto:[email protected] > [4] > http://docs.translatehouse.org/projects/localization-guide/en/latest/l10n/pluralforms.html > [5] mailto:[email protected] > [6] mailto:[email protected] > [7] mailto:[email protected] > [8] mailto:[email protected] > [9] mailto:[email protected] > [10] mailto:[email protected] > [11] https://translate.sugarlabs.org/yo/ > [12] https://translate.sugarlabs.org/ibo/ > [13] mailto:[email protected] > [14] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > [15] mailto:[email protected] > [16] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > [17] http://www.sugarlabs.org/ > [18] mailto:[email protected] > [19] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > [20] mailto:[email protected] > [21] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) 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