I personally will find the time to complete this task if necessary but if you can postpone this improvement to 10.04.1 it might be better... Yaron Shahrabani - CTO "The Campus" Web: http://www.hacampus.org.il/ Israeli Applicable Studies Institute 200 Hativat Yiftah St., Karmiel, Israel Phone Number: +972 (4) 9988508
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Dylan McCall <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there! > > With the redesigned ubiquity-slideshow I blogged about, I received a ton > of constructive feedback. It inspired many possible string changes in > ubiquity-slideshow's Ubuntu template. With that and some interesting details > which have emerged now that the dust around Lucid's new stuff storm has > settled, I have an overwhelming urge to modify about 30% of the strings :o > > Of course, this is an ugly position, because looking at Rosetta there are a > bunch of full translations and some other partial ones that are rather well > along, and I do hate to break things. (Honest!) > > Would it be okay for the translation effort if I upload the new strings and > consider them frozen with documentation freeze on March 25? > > There would then be beta 2 and the release candidates for translations to > be tested. > > A lot of this stuff is about clarification; just small changes. There is > the odd addition (eg: Ubuntu One Music Store, useful information in the > Empathy slide) which will completely replace old strings. I'm okay to > prioritize things and only submit what is really important, but that could > take a bit longer to work through (and wouldn't be as attractive in the > end). > > I realize that having fancy English pales in comparison to having rich > translations in a million different languages. So, I want to give everyone a > heads up (just so nobody else translates the possibly doomed strings) and be > sure this won't cause too much damage. > > Thanks, > > Dylan McCall > > PS: My thought at this point is that it would really make sense for my > project, going forwards, to be considered a documentation package as far as > string freeze is concerned. Anyone know how I can go about that? > > PPS: It occurs to me that we could probably add new translations when the > 10.04.1 images are made, too :) > > -- > ubuntu-translators mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators > >
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