On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:59 PM, David Planella <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi all, > > In a conversation with other translators yesterday, the subject of > localized images in Ubuntu Docs came up. > > We were wondering how to make it easier for everyone to be able to provide > images in their language, other than starting to submit branch proposals to > the Ubuntu docs bzr branch (not everyone is familiar with bzr). > > One idea that came up was to set up an Ubuntu One share with the content > of the upstream branch's ubuntu-help folder, i.e: > > ast/figures > az/figures > bs/figures > C/figures > > Once the documentation string freeze is over, we could open the share and > translators should only need to: > > - fetch the source images from C/figures > - create their localized images > - copy then to their <locale>/figures folder > > Then once the NonLanguagePackTranslationDeal**ine is reached, we could > submit a merge proposal against the upstream ubuntu-docs branch with the > contents of the share. > > I believe this would make it easy for translators to provide the localized > images (just copy images to a folder instead of dealing with Bazaar) and > easy for members of the docs team to include them (just need to accept a > single merge proposal). > > If you all think it could be a good idea, I'd be happy to set up the share > and organize all the rest. > > Let me know what you think. > > On the issue of how to visualise what figures are needed or what needs updating, I think it's nice to have a feature similar to GNOME's, as in http://l10n.gnome.org/module/evolution/help/master/es/images/ which shows in the first column the original screenshot and in the right column any provided localisations. I like the Ubuntu One idea for the collection of the screenshots. Simos
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