On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 11:06 +0800, Arne Goetje wrote: > > The lead developer was surprised that Ubuntu has a Hebrew translation. > > Like many upstreams they have no idea that Ubuntu translates packages > > itself, and doesn't send the translations upstream. > > well, the issue that we don't send the translations upstream is indeed > something we work on to improve. However, we don't have any solution > ready yet, because that is mainly a logistic problem... we would need to > keep track of all upstream bug contacts for each package. Unless this > information is stored and maintained (!) in the package itself in an > easy to parse format, so that such kind of bugs can be submitted > automatically by script, I don't see any practical way to solve this > issue any time soon. > Suggestions for this are welcome, of course. I'd propose Ubuntu people stop forking packages with proprietary translations and instead work with the upstream projects properly. The current situation only compounds the perception amongst people that Ubuntu = all of FOSS, which is dangerous. I used to be a Ubuntu en_GB person (mostly in name), but my principles got in the way. -- Bruce Cowan <https://launchpad.net/~bruce89/>
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