Hi JJ,

you are welcome, and thanks for your kind words! :)

Rimas


2013.11.12 22:27, jjmeric wrote:
> Dear Rimas
>
> Thanks very much for the launch pad!
> Your care with this is Highly appeciated.
> I'll have a look at it right now.
>
> Long life to "Atviras Kodas Lietuvai"
>
> I ni ce, i ni baraji ! k'i ni h?r? b?n!
> /approx Thanks & peace be with you!/
>
> JJ "Jire"
>
>
> Le 12/11/2013 20:48, Rimas Kudelis a écrit :
>> Hello JJ,
>>
>> Yes you can volunteer to be the lead.
>>
>> I have added Bambara to Pootle (note, the locale code I used is "bm"
>> instead of "bm-ML") and made you the admin of this locale. All you have
>> to do now is add yourself to the wiki page (you'll have to register on
>> the wiki to do that, or ask someone else) and start localizing.
>>
>> I've initialized the LibreOffice 4.1 UI project for you. That's plenty
>> of work. If you would want any other project initialized, ask for that
>> on the list.
>>
>> What you could also do before starting is to take care to publish the
>> information about the plural forms in your language on
>> http://docs.translatehouse.org/projects/localization-guide/en/latest/l10n/pluralforms.html
>>
>> and https://translations.launchpad.net/+languages/bm . From skimming a
>> Wikipedia article about your language, I assume that the correct plural
>> rule would be "nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);" (which means, there's one
>> singular form for cases when there's just one object, and one plural
>> form for all other cases), but I'd rather have you confirm or correct
>> that (we don't (yet) make use of these forms in LibreOffice, but having
>> this well documented will definitely help other projects).
>>
>> There's plenty of info for beginners on the wiki, but I suspect it might
>> be a bit disorganized and difficult to find. For example, here's the
>> guide about using Pootle (thanks Sophie!):
>> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/PootleGuide .
>>
>> Good luck and don't hesitate to write to this list if you have questions
>> or feedback!
>> And apologies for ignoring your previous message.
>>
>> Rimas
>>
>> 2013.11.12 10:27, jjmeric wrote:
>>> I am reiterating my question, following the recommendations:
>>>
>>>     /Get the necessary permissions from //*the *//*leads of your
>>>     language project
>>>     <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Language_Teams>*//(contact the
>>>     mailing list below if the language project does not exist or its
>>>     lead is not specified or does not respond in a reasonable amount of
>>>     time)//
>>>     /
>>>
>>>
>>> There does not seem to be a "lead" for bambara/bamanan (bm-ML), so
>>> what do we do ?
>>> Can I volunteer to be that person ? and if yes how do I proceed to get
>>> things started!!!
>>>
>>> Thanks for help!
>>> JJ
>>>
>>> Le 07/11/2013 23:00, jjmeric a écrit :
>>>> Bambara (bm-ML) is a west African language spoken in several
>>>> countries, the main one being Mali (ML)
>>>> Please help me get started in opening what needs to be open on Pootle
>>>> and on the wiki.
>>>>
>>>> As a short introduction, I am a 3d year student at INALCO, Paris
>>>> (http://www.inalco.fr/)
>>>> I have implemented a spell-checker for the language, which I
>>>> submitted for Extensions but for some reason it does not show up
>>>> there (I need help there too!)
>>>>
>>>> Jean-Jacques
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
>


-- 
To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected]
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted

Reply via email to