[Gimp-developer] translating The GIMP

2001-07-19 Thread Sven Neumann

Hi,

I have been told that I can reach most of the gimp translators on the
gnome-i18n list, so I'm sending this email to gnome-i18n and the 
gimp-developer list. If you reply, please consider not to cross-post
unless you think your reply does belong to both lists.

I'm one of the maintainers of current gimp development and I do
unofficially maintain the translation of The GIMP for the stable
branch too. There have lately been some confusions caused by the 
fact that The GIMP is at the moment developed in two branches and 
obviously there are translators working on The GIMP that are not 
subscribed to gimp-developer and do not know about this situation.
I hope this mail clears some of this confusion.

GIMP development is currently branched. The HEAD branch is undergoing
major redesigns and it does not make sense at all to work on the
translations in this branch. At the moment we are preparing the 1.2.2
release, a release in the stable gimp-1.2 series. Work on this is done
in the gimp-1-2 branch and translators should focus on this branch
and this branch only. If people absolutely want to spend time working
on HEAD, go ahead, but do expect a lot of changes that may render your
work obsolete.

Today I found that www.klid.dk/gnome has po and pot files from gimp.
People seem to use these files and even check translations based on
these files into the stable branch. If the person responsible for 
www.klid.dk can be reached here, I ask him/here to remove these files.

I'd like to use this opportunity to make some additional remarks on
translating The GIMP. There is a file called README.i18n in the gimp
source tree which explains how to translate The GIMP and names a few
points that are special to The GIMP I18N. Every gimp translator should
have read it! There's a copy available on the Gimp I18n page at

 http://sven.gimp.org/1.2/i18n.html

From now on I'll post announcements about upcoming gimp releases to the 
gnome-i18n list too to remind translators to update their po files. 
Please note that the 1.2.2 release is going to happen very soon now.


Salut, Sven
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[Gimp-developer] Re: translating The GIMP

2001-07-19 Thread Sven Neumann

Hi,

looks as if I have not been detailed enough (I'm referring to 
the latest addition of a new language to The GIMP that happened
after my first email).

Please do _not_ use gimp.pot files from any other source than 
GNOME-CVS module gimp branch gimp-1-2.

Ask before you add a new translation to The GIMP.

Run 'update.sh lang.po' before committing.

You have to provide po files for all po directories as explained
in README.i18n.

Thank you.


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