Hi. Reacting to the point ‘Please introduce yourself, so we get to meet you, and to find out what you are going to contribute’ I want to say that my name is Eirik U. Birkeland, and I come from Norway. I have already (locally) started a Norwegian Nynorsk (nn) translation of mailman, and am also able to help out with the existing Norwegian Bokmål (nb) one. I have been involved with several free software translation projects during the past 3–4 years or so, among them KDE and OpenOffice.org.
Now for a few questions/comments I wanted to raise: 1. Can somebody formally start the process of adding Norwegian Nynorsk (nn) as a language in Mailman? 2. Is there demanded a certain amount of work to have a SVN account? I have one at several of the other projects I’ve been involved with, so I’m quite familiar with it, and since there is noone else for Norwegian Nynorsk, so… 3. With the current information in mailman, it gives me and every other user the impression that Norwegian Bokmål (nb) is the only form of Norwegian (no), as it is called the latter. Please change the name to Norwegian Bokmål and the language code to nb. 4. I saw Barry Warsaw write in another email to this list that: ‘Ultimately we're going to move all translations to Launchpad, but probably only for the Mailman 3 series.’ I just wanted to say that I would *strongly* recommend you not to. The list of cons with the Launchpad translation system is longer than you could possibly imagine. In Norway we have seen several high-quality translations being virtually ruined by it. Translating over the Internet is a *much* slower and more ineffective way of doing it than using an offline translation software, like e.g. Lokalize or Poedit. Using just ordinar .po files with a statistics system like the one for KDE [1] is by far a better solution IMHO. [1] http://l10n.kde.org/stats/gui/stable-kde4/team/ Best, Eirik U. Birkeland _______________________________________________ Mailman-i18n mailing list Posts: [email protected] Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-i18n/archive%40mail-archive.com
