On 12/15/12 12:13 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 14/12/2012 Kannan S R wrote: >> Hi,I am Kannan S R from Bangalore, India. I am working in Tata >> Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS). I would like to volunteer myself for >> translating Apache soft-wares to Tamil > > Hi Kannan, I'm answering with the same message both you and SRkumar, who > wrote at the same time giving your availability to help with the Tamil > translation of OpenOffice. > > Thank you, and you can start right now! Another Tamil-speaking > volunteer, Kadal Amutham (in CC), is now giving precious help with the > Tamil website and marketing, and will probably join you when finished > with the website. > > The next steps you should take are: > > 1) Please subscribe to the localization mailing list or you will miss > messages. To subscribe, just send an empty e-mail to > [email protected] and respond to the confirmation > request you will receive. If traffic is too high, remember that you can > also subscribe to a "daily digest" (1 message per day); ask us in case. > > 2) Read this page: http://openoffice.apache.org/translate.html ; it > describes the translation process. > > 3) Download the PO files for Tamil. You can find them at > > http://people.apache.org/~pescetti/l10n/aoo341_ta_po-files-diff.tar.bz2 > > (note to Juergen: these are your same files, but I deleted Testtool and > the 135 files that are 100% translated, so volunteers won't be confused)
ok, but I would prefer if we communicate the details and keep the po bundles untouched. It makes the reintegration easier for me and I have to do less. I think the used tools for offline translation can take care of already translated strings. But it is no big problem, I just want to mention that with the upcoming update for AOO 4.0 we will remove unused string anyway. Juergen > > 4) You will find about 140 small files. Agree with each other, in > private, on how to divide them between the two (and probably three when > Kadal joins) of you. If you need any help, just ask. > > You could manage to get the UI (i.e., everything except the > "helpcontent2" dir) done by end of December, which means that we could > be able to make OpenOffice 3.4.1 in Tamil officially available in January. > > Regards, > Andrea.
