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[Bertrand Rousseau <bertrand.rousseau@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Lionel Dricot <ploum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> I find the idea very interesting. What do you think ?
>
>
Uh, which one? There's plenty of proposals in this mail...

I don't know about GTP, so I can't really comment on this one. The sure
thing is, if we want to be some part of GNOME, that would be an interesting
move. The point about gnome git repository and launchpad is also relevant,
we'll have to think about that some day...

I actuall didn't know about a difference between lp translation team and
ubuntu translation team. As far as I am concerned, I think we should be as
general as possible, and try not to be too ubuntu-centric. So it is clearly
ok for me.

What does he call a "Structured" policy?

Bertrand

-------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Proposal to use a different policy for translations for GTG
> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:56:29 +0100
> From: Milo Casagrande <milo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Lionel Dricot <ploum@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Lionel,
>
> 2010/1/30 Lionel Dricot <ploum@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > I 100% agree with you that we should now care a bit more about quality
> > of the translation. As gtg is intended to be a GNOME project, maybe it
> > could also be linked with GNOME translation project ?
>
> Using the GNOME Translation Project (GTP) would be even better!
> But there could be some problems. I'll elaborate them below.
>
> > I'm completely unaware of how translations should work and, to be
> > honest, not really interested to learn too much right now. But I would
> > like GTG to have an high translation quality.
> >
> > What do you suggest we should do right now? What would you do if you
> > were the current maintainer of GTG?
>
> So, right now, as the fastest solution possible, I would:
> - Appoint the translations to the Launchpad Translators team: in this
> way you are not tied to the Ubuntu Translators (since a lot of people
> don't like that, even if the situation has drastically changed from
> the past)
> - Use a "Structured" policy
> - As a bonus, avoid translations uploads directly in the code, and
> strictly use the translations coming from Launchpad
>
> This could be a temporary solution if you intend to take advantage of the
> GTP.
>
> Why there could be some problems? If you would like to use the GTP as
> the driver for GTG translations, you have to use some of GNOME
> infrastructure: at least, you need to have a copy of your code on
> GNOME git, so that translators can get the code from there and upload
> the translations there (all the translation teams in GNOME have git
> commit access). But you need to keep this code synced between bzr and
> git, and you have also to fetch translations from git into bzr when
> you are ready for a release.
> Unfortunately, there is no interaction between Launchpad and GNOME
> translations infrastructure, yet. We can try to talk to Launchpad
> Translation devs to see if it will be possible in the future to
> address this concern ('cause there could be other projects that prefer
> to use bzr over git, or Launchpad in general), but it could take quite
> a lot of time.
>
> > Thanks a lot for noticing us and for your advices.
>
> Thank you for your attention.
>
> --
> Milo Casagrande <milo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
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Bertrand Rousseau