Re: Sun contributed l10n documentation

2006-11-09 Thread F Wolff
On Wo, 2006-11-08 at 17:32 -0200, Leonardo Fontenelle wrote:
 One of Pootle's current aim is to improve support for XLIFF. Pootle is
 an online translation tool; although offline (e.g. gtranslator) tools
 are and will remain very important, I believe an online tool should
 lower barriers to contribute and improve translation consistency.
 
 Pootle's documentation is located in http://translate.sf.net; the
 following pages cover XLIFF:
 . http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/wordforge/roadmap
 . http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/friedel/xliff
 
 Debian is working with Pootle to move Debian's translation process
 into Pootle. GNOME could do that too! IMHO it would be great to have a
 GNOME server à la Pootle, and an off-line translation tool
 (gtranslator?) comunicating with it à la bug-buddy. (Note: I don't
 do code, I think as a software _user_).
 
 Leonardo Fontenelle
 
 2006/11/8, Francisco Javier F. Serrador [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
  The problem with XLIFF I think there are not enough free software tools
  to have a complete globalization stack.


As mentioned in my separate e-mail about Pootle, we consider our move to
XLIFF as a really important task.  We are also busy building an offline
translation editor that is made with Qt4 and Python and will therefore
be cross platform.  It will work with PO and XLIFF files and also be
based on the translate toolkit, like Pootle.  It will also sport many of
the same features of the Pootle editor like checks (see my separate
e-mail), and extra features such as translation memory.  Another aspect
that we have planned for the future, is indeed this kind of integration
between client translation programs and the Pootle server, where the
server facilitates the translation management and workflow.  So yes, we
definitely are working on the complete stack, as Javier Serrador calls
it

Dwayne Bailey and Javier Solá from our team recently met with Damien
Donlon of Sun to explored ways of working together around Pootle, XLIFF
and OpenOffice.org localisation.  I think we will see more in this space
in future.

Friedel
Pootle programmer

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Re: Sun contributed l10n documentation

2006-11-09 Thread F Wolff
On Wo, 2006-11-08 at 23:51 +0100, Francisco Javier F. Serrador wrote:
 Well, I think we are reusing some libs of translate-toolkit (which is
 part of pootle). 
 
 I know about Debian and Pootle experiment, but I have some concerns
 about lowering barriers and not lowering quality at the same time.
 Lowering technological barriers is good, you get more people involved,
 but the QA group can be overhelmed by hundreds of low quality
 translations easily.
 

Your concerns are legitimate and (perhaps because of other similar
projects) many people have these concerns.  Let me outline some features
that I think will interest people that are concerned about quality:

 * A project admin (for a certain language and project) can setup access
permissions for users on the Pootle server.  The administrators can
allow only certain users to translate, while limiting others to only
providing suggestions, which have to be reviewed by someone with the
appropriate privileges. This can also make it much easier for people to
provide suggestions for small fixes, since one can simply search for a
wrong string and provide a suggestion. Even the right to suggest can be
limited to certain users.  We plan to extend this in future to make role
based privileges possible.


* Pootle can make use of terminology files (http://pootle.wordforge.org
currently makes use of files from the GNOME glossary project).  It scans
the original string for terms in the terminology project, and displays
the official translation to the translator (with the definition/notes
provided in the comments displayed in the tooltip).  As an example,
visit this URL:
http://pootle.wordforge.org/sv/pootle/translate.html?searchtext=GNU

It shows a message from the Swedish translation of Pootle, using the
terminology defined in the GNOME glossary (which can be maintained as a
separate translation project with separate access rights, etc.). 


* Pootle checks translations for many types of common errors, for
example accelerators, variables, punctuation, etc.  A full list of
checks can be viewed here:
http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/toolkit/pofilter_tests
Not all the checks currently work equally well for all languages
(punctuation tests, for example), but should provide a useful way for
people to catch many common errors.  We plan to implement language and
script customised checks in future.

To view these on Pootle, click on Show editing functions and then
Show checks.  (Hopefully our Pootle server won't be a good
demonstration, because the translators already removed all of the valid
errors ;-)


* Another important feature that we are currently working on, and our
XLIFF work is very much part of that, is to make it easier for teams to
implement their desired workflow and to help them enforce it - however
simple or complex they might want it to be. So although Pootle can act
as an online translation tool, the translation management is very much a
central part of it.  We intend to work very well with all offline
editors (PO and XLIFF based).  Also see my separate mail about our
offline editor.


There are more issues and ideas that are discussed on our mailing lists
and the wiki.  We would really like people to get involved to ensure
that we do things right.  Our goals aren't just to make things easier,
but also better.  We do localisation ourselves (we don't just make
tools) so we understand the importance of quality.  If there are issues
that are needed, please get involved and help us to go in the right
direction.

So although Pootle lowers the barrier of entry, we hope it also makes it
easier for people to make high quality translations, and to aid
inexperienced and experienced translators alike.


Friedel
Pootle programmer

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Re: gThumb pending releases

2006-11-09 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
Danilo Šegan wrote:
 http://progress.gnome.org/module/gthumb, and at the same time, report
 any problems and/or suggestions up on

Oops... I see from your status page that I neglected to add several 
files to POTFILES.in. This has been corrected in CVS. Sorry!

- Mike
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Re: Sun contributed l10n documentation

2006-11-09 Thread Francisco Javier F. Serrador
That sound very good notices. I will setup a pootle server as soon as
possible. Maybe it is the thing we are looking for. 

El jue, 09-11-2006 a las 10:02 +0200, F Wolff escribió:
 On Wo, 2006-11-08 at 23:51 +0100, Francisco Javier F. Serrador wrote:
  Well, I think we are reusing some libs of translate-toolkit (which is
  part of pootle). 
  
  I know about Debian and Pootle experiment, but I have some concerns
  about lowering barriers and not lowering quality at the same time.
  Lowering technological barriers is good, you get more people involved,
  but the QA group can be overhelmed by hundreds of low quality
  translations easily.
  
 
 Your concerns are legitimate and (perhaps because of other similar
 projects) many people have these concerns.  Let me outline some features
 that I think will interest people that are concerned about quality:
 
  * A project admin (for a certain language and project) can setup access
 permissions for users on the Pootle server.  The administrators can
 allow only certain users to translate, while limiting others to only
 providing suggestions, which have to be reviewed by someone with the
 appropriate privileges. This can also make it much easier for people to
 provide suggestions for small fixes, since one can simply search for a
 wrong string and provide a suggestion. Even the right to suggest can be
 limited to certain users.  We plan to extend this in future to make role
 based privileges possible.
 
 
 * Pootle can make use of terminology files (http://pootle.wordforge.org
 currently makes use of files from the GNOME glossary project).  It scans
 the original string for terms in the terminology project, and displays
 the official translation to the translator (with the definition/notes
 provided in the comments displayed in the tooltip).  As an example,
 visit this URL:
 http://pootle.wordforge.org/sv/pootle/translate.html?searchtext=GNU
 
 It shows a message from the Swedish translation of Pootle, using the
 terminology defined in the GNOME glossary (which can be maintained as a
 separate translation project with separate access rights, etc.). 
 
 
 * Pootle checks translations for many types of common errors, for
 example accelerators, variables, punctuation, etc.  A full list of
 checks can be viewed here:
 http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/toolkit/pofilter_tests
 Not all the checks currently work equally well for all languages
 (punctuation tests, for example), but should provide a useful way for
 people to catch many common errors.  We plan to implement language and
 script customised checks in future.
 
 To view these on Pootle, click on Show editing functions and then
 Show checks.  (Hopefully our Pootle server won't be a good
 demonstration, because the translators already removed all of the valid
 errors ;-)
 
 
 * Another important feature that we are currently working on, and our
 XLIFF work is very much part of that, is to make it easier for teams to
 implement their desired workflow and to help them enforce it - however
 simple or complex they might want it to be. So although Pootle can act
 as an online translation tool, the translation management is very much a
 central part of it.  We intend to work very well with all offline
 editors (PO and XLIFF based).  Also see my separate mail about our
 offline editor.
 
 
 There are more issues and ideas that are discussed on our mailing lists
 and the wiki.  We would really like people to get involved to ensure
 that we do things right.  Our goals aren't just to make things easier,
 but also better.  We do localisation ourselves (we don't just make
 tools) so we understand the importance of quality.  If there are issues
 that are needed, please get involved and help us to go in the right
 direction.
 
 So although Pootle lowers the barrier of entry, we hope it also makes it
 easier for people to make high quality translations, and to aid
 inexperienced and experienced translators alike.
 
 
 Friedel
 Pootle programmer
 
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Hi all

2006-11-09 Thread ம.ராமதாஸ்
Hi,I would like to introduce myself.I am Sri Ramadoss, based at Chennai, India. I am interested in translating GNOME to Tamil, my mother tongue. Would like to hear from any one about the current status of GNOME translation into Tamil and how I could start/ help translating them.
Please reply. Thank You.-- அன்புடன்,ம. ஸ்ரீ ராமதாஸ்.[Sri Ramadoss M]Team Contact - Ubuntu Tamil TeamWiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/sriramadas
IRC: amachu AT freenode Channel: #ubuntu-tamBlog: http://aamachu.blogspot.com/
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Re: Hi all

2006-11-09 Thread Andre Klapper
hej sri,

Am Freitag, den 10.11.2006, 00:01 +0530 schrieb ம.ராமதாஸ்:
 I would like to introduce myself.
 
 I am Sri Ramadoss, based at Chennai, India. I am interested in
 translating GNOME to Tamil, my mother tongue. 
 
 Would like to hear from any one about the current status of GNOME
 translation into Tamil and how I could start/ help translating them. 
 
 Please reply. Thank You.

please take a look at http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/teams.html
and contact the current tamil team leader Jayaradha N if you are
interested to join the team.
your team coordinator should be able to tell you where you can help and
what needs to be done for tamil. :-)

thanks for your interest,
andre

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Weekly translation status for Gnome 2.16

2006-11-09 Thread danilo
Translation status changes from 2006-11-02 to 2006-11-09.
Total message count has changed from 33898 to 33879.

Average change during this period was -0.230%.

Top 5 movers of the week: 
  * Estonian (up 0.38%, now supported)
  * Arabic (up 0.1%, partially supported)
  * Italian (up 0.07%, supported)
  * Dzongkha (up 0.06%, supported)
  * Bulgarian (up 0.04%, supported)


Supported languages (more than 80% strings translated).

1.  Bulgarian (bg)100.00% up 0.04%
Dutch (nl)100.00%no change
Dzongkha (dz) 100.00% up 0.06%
Finnish (fi)  100.00%no change
Gujarati (gu) 100.00%no change
Macedonian (mk)   100.00%no change
Spanish (es)  100.00% up 0.01%
Swedish (sv)  100.00%no change
9.  Galician (gl)  99.98% up 0.02%
   10.  Vietnamese (vi)99.96%   down 0.01%
Lithuanian (lt)99.96%no change
   12.  Japanese (ja)  99.94%no change
   13.  British English (en_GB)99.93%   down 0.01%
   14.  Ukrainian (uk) 99.91%   down 0.01%
German (de)99.91%   down 0.01%
Russian (ru)   99.91%   down 0.01%
   17.  Portuguese (pt)99.90%   down 0.01%
   18.  French (fr)99.88%no change
   19.  Catalan (ca)   99.83%   down 0.01%
   20.  Korean (ko)99.31%   down 0.01%
   21.  Chinese Traditional (zh_TW)99.17%   down 0.01%
   22.  Greek (el) 98.74%no change
   23.  Norwegian Bookmal (nb) 98.58%   down 0.01%
   24.  Italian (it)   97.91% up 0.07%
   25.  Hungarian (hu) 97.72%   down 1.51%
   26.  Punjabi (pa)   97.41%   down 0.02%
   27.  Latvian (lv)   97.36%   down 0.01%
   28.  Welsh (cy) 96.66%   down 0.01%
   29.  Hindi (hi) 96.45%no change
   30.  Chinese Simplified (zh_CN) 95.76%   down 0.02%
   31.  Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)   95.63%   down 0.01%
   32.  Slovenian (sl) 95.30%   down 0.01%
   33.  Indonesian (id)95.22%   down 1.46%
   34.  Czech (cs) 94.77%   down 0.02%
   35.  Serbian (sr)   94.29%   down 0.01%
   36.  Tamil (ta) 93.77%   down 0.11%
   37.  Basque (eu)92.89%no change
   38.  Turkish (tr)   91.73%no change
   39.  Canadian English (en_CA)   91.72%   down 0.02%
   40.  Romanian (ro)  90.73%   down 1.40%
   41.  Albanian (sq)  89.73%   down 1.39%
   42.  Indian Bengali (bn_IN) 88.72%   down 0.01%
   43.  Estonian (et)  88.45% up 0.38%
   44.  Polish (pl)87.64%   down 1.35%
   45.  Danish (da)87.56%   down 1.35%
   46.  Bengali (bn)   86.84%   down 0.01%
   47.  Thai (th)  84.80%   down 0.01%
   48.  Nepali (ne)84.50%   down 0.01%
   49.  Malayalam (ml) 82.48%   down 0.01%


Partially supported languages (between 50% and 80%).

   50.  Norwegian Nynorsk (nn) 79.26%   down 1.12%
   51.  Persian (fa)   75.59%   down 1.16%
   52.  Arabic (ar)74.85% up 0.10%
   53.  Oriya (or) 69.35%no change
   54.  Georgian (ka)  65.48%   down 1.01%
   55.  Hebrew (he)62.74%   down 0.37%
   56.  Slovak (sk)61.73%   down 0.95%
   57.  Croatian (hr)  59.44%   down 0.92%
   58.  Belarusian (be)59.30%   down 0.92%
   59.  Marathi (mr)   58.05%no change
   60.  Azerbaijani (az)   56.39%   down 0.87%
   61.  Xhosa (xh) 54.84%   down 0.84%
   62.  Mongolian (mn) 54.40%   down 0.83%
   63.  Malagasy (mg)  52.21%   down 0.81%


Unsupported languages (less than 50%).

   64.  Malay (ms) 49.67%   down 0.77%
   65.  Bosnian (bs)   45.39%   down 0.70%
   66.  Telugu (te)33.66%   down 0.52%
   67.  Wallon (wa)21.25%   down 0.33%
   68.  Kurdish (ku)   19.63%   down 0.30%
   69.  Kirghiz (ky)   16.87%   down 0.26%
   70.  Irish Gaelic (ga)  15.94%   down 0.24%
   71.  Icelandic (is) 15.76%   down 0.25%
   72.  Afrikaans (af) 14.31%   down 0.22%
   73.  Northern Sotho (nso)   13.54%   down 0.20%
   74.  Armenian (hy)  11.64%   down 0.18%
   75.  Breton (br)11.39%   down 0.18%
   76.  Serbian Jekavian ([EMAIL 

Weekly translation status for Gnome 2.14

2006-11-09 Thread danilo
Translation status changes from 2006-11-02 to 2006-11-09.
Total message count is stable at 33928.

Average change during this period was 0.002%.

Top 5 movers of the week: 
  * Norwegian Nynorsk (up 0.1%, now supported)
  * Hebrew (up 0.06%, partially supported)
  * Estonian (up 0.03%, supported)
  * Dzongkha (up 0.01%, supported)
  * Irish Gaelic (down 0%, unsupported)


Supported languages (more than 80% strings translated).

1.  Swedish (sv)  100.00%no change
Dutch (nl)100.00%no change
Finnish (fi)  100.00%no change
French (fr)   100.00%no change
Gujarati (gu) 100.00%no change
Nepali (ne)   100.00%no change
Spanish (es)  100.00%no change
Lithuanian (lt)   100.00%no change
9.  Bulgarian (bg) 99.99%no change
Vietnamese (vi)99.99%no change
Japanese (ja)  99.99%no change
   12.  British English (en_GB)99.97%no change
Catalan (ca)   99.97%no change
Dzongkha (dz)  99.97% up 0.01%
   15.  Galician (gl)  99.96%no change
Hungarian (hu) 99.96%no change
Punjabi (pa)   99.96%no change
   18.  Czech (cs) 99.92%no change
Greek (el) 99.92%no change
   20.  Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)   99.91%no change
Welsh (cy) 99.91%no change
   22.  Albanian (sq)  99.89%no change
German (de)99.89%no change
   24.  Chinese Traditional (zh_TW)99.86%no change
   25.  Ukrainian (uk) 99.84%no change
   26.  Portuguese (pt)99.83%no change
   27.  Latvian (lv)   99.82%no change
   28.  Norwegian Bookmal (nb) 99.80%no change
   29.  Serbian (sr)   99.78%no change
   30.  Russian (ru)   99.74%no change
   31.  Macedonian (mk)99.70%no change
   32.  Italian (it)   99.68%no change
   33.  Indonesian (id)99.15%no change
   34.  Canadian English (en_CA)   99.12%no change
   35.  Chinese Simplified (zh_CN) 99.01%no change
   36.  Korean (ko)96.98%no change
   37.  Romanian (ro)  97.25%no change
   38.  Danish (da)95.74%no change
   39.  Polish (pl)95.45%no change
   40.  Hindi (hi) 94.08%no change
   41.  Turkish (tr)   92.01%no change
   42.  Estonian (et)  86.15% up 0.03%
   43.  Basque (eu)85.23%no change
   44.  Norwegian Nynorsk (nn) 82.90% up 0.10%
   45.  Thai (th)  80.96%no change
   46.  Bengali (bn)   80.93%no change


Partially supported languages (between 50% and 80%).

   47.  Persian (fa)   77.27%no change
   48.  Tamil (ta) 69.25%no change
   49.  Hebrew (he)67.75% up 0.06%
   50.  Croatian (hr)  67.53%no change
   51.  Georgian (ka)  67.15%no change
   52.  Belarusian (be)63.67%no change
   53.  Slovak (sk)63.21%no change
   54.  Arabic (ar)61.50%no change
   55.  Azerbaijani (az)   58.54%no change
   56.  Xhosa (xh) 56.43%no change
   57.  Mongolian (mn) 55.68%no change
   58.  Malay (ms) 51.28%no change


Unsupported languages (less than 50%).

   59.  Bosnian (bs)   47.36%no change
   60.  Telugu (te)40.41%no change
   61.  Slovenian (sl) 39.66%no change
   62.  Kirghiz (ky)   24.26%no change
   63.  Wallon (wa)20.46%no change
   64.  Malayalam (ml) 19.17%no change
   65.  Oriya (or) 18.86%no change
   66.  Breton (br)18.57%no change
   67.  Irish Gaelic (ga)  16.37%no change
   68.  Icelandic (is) 16.08%no change
   69.  Afrikaans (af) 14.66%no change
   70.  Northern Sotho (nso)   13.91%no change
   71.  Kurdish (ku)   12.88%no change
   72.  Armenian (hy)  11.77%no change
   73.  Serbian Jekavian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])  11.54%no change
   74.  Amharic (am)   11.03%no change
   75.  Marathi (mr)   10.06%no change
   76.  Zulu (zu)

Re: Sun contributed l10n documentation

2006-11-09 Thread Clytie Siddall


On 10/11/2006, at 12:50 AM, Francisco Javier F. Serrador wrote:


That sound very good notices. I will setup a pootle server as soon as
possible. Maybe it is the thing we are looking for.


The Pootle developers are very keen to help projects integrate their  
tools. You'll be very welcome on translate-pootle [1], or #pootle on  
Freenode. :)


from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN

[1] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle

Other info:
http://pootle.wordforge.org/
http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle




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