Clytie Siddall wrote:
Hello everybody :)
I'm here in response to the matiphas' email to the Deb18n list. I'm willing to translate Inkscape into Vietnamese.
I've had a look at your wiki page (information for translators), which is very helpful. I have a couple of questions. ;)
- What is your timeline? I'd hope to get the interface file translated
for release.
The release wardens know for sure, they are Jon Cruz and Aaron Spike. But release time is "any day" now, since we've been in string freeze for 3 weeks now... Someone with more info should fill you in on the exact timeline.
- At the bottom of the status page, you note that:
GNOME has the following at >50%. bg, ca, cs, de, en_CA, en_GB, es, fi, fr, nb, ne, nl, pl, pt, pt_BR, ru, sk, sr, sv, uk, vi, zh_CN, and zh_TW
I also translate for GNOME, and I can't find Inkscape on the GNOME l10n status pages [1]. If it had been there, I would have translated it long ago, and kept it updated for releases.
Actually there is an entry for sodipoli under extras/ but the name reflects that it is pretty outdated.
However, when I looked for the language I work on ('el' - Greek) I found out that someone has made some progress in the meantime which wasn't commited to our repository! When I translated some strings in Greek, the only one who had worked on that previously was Simos Xenitelis back in 2001. However on Gnome pages, Kostas Papadimas has done some more work in 2003 and 2004 and translated some strings in Greek. But his work doesn't appear in our repository!
If this is the case with other languages, maybe we can merge the Gnome sodipoli PO files with the current strings. Languages with small percentages might get a significant boost. (In Greek, translation work done in 2001 saved me from re-translating something like 150 strings, and provided helpful clues on translating some terminology.)
Where does Inkscape fit in with GNOME? Would I do better to get the interface PO file from GNOME (and if so, how, please?), or directly from SVN?
There have been discussions of keeping Inkscape's PO files on GNOME but we still haven't reached a decision. Currently the safest way to go is to get them from Inkscape's SVN repository. A 0.44 branch has not yet been created, so simply checkout https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/po/ and work on that.
Thanks for your help. :)
Thanks for helping with the translation.
- Spyros Blanas