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Emne: Kubuntu reaching out to KDE l10n Dato: Sundag 5. juli 2009 Frå: Harald Sitter apachelogger@ubuntu.com Til: kde-i18n-doc@kde.org, ubuntu-translation-coordinator@lists.launchpad.net
Shalom my dearest KDE l10n contributors and Ubuntu translation coordinators :)
It's been some time since I started whining about how horribly the Kubuntu l10n is degraded compared to KDE's. Time that didn't pass unused. We are currently in the process of improving the reflection of KDE l10n changes (.pot movement/removal/..) to Launchpad (Rosetta), thus decreasing the probability of missing or outdated templates. Within the last few months Rosetta as well as the whole Ubuntu translation process got tremendous improvements which should also help prevent unexpected issues from appearing (at all).
=== KDE Liaison === One of the most important changes is probably the introduction of the Ubuntu Translation Coordinator team, who's members are responsible for management of translation templates (.pot). Even though this helps a lot, since now the Kubuntu developers have someone to blame when something goes wrong ;-), they are currently lacking a member who is experienced with KDE's l10n process and the inner workings of KDE in general.
So I am asking you: Is someone willing to at least become KDE liaison for the Ubuntu Translation Coordinator team? You'd be their primary contact for anything KDE related, so being experienced is certainly helpful (otherwise you should at least know whom to ask :)). A lot of the problems Kubuntu experienced in the past appeared because the bigger part of the Ubuntu translation team doesn't exactly know all that much about KDE l10n, and I have been told KDE handles some stuff quite differently, so having someone to help the Ubuntu Translation Coordinator to stay on top of things would help a lot.
=== Kubuntu Translations Day === David Planella, from the Ubuntu Translation Coordinators, suggested to do a Kubuntu Tutorials Day:
I'd like to propose a Kubuntu Translations Day in #kubuntu-devel. The purpose of this event will be to test everything around Kubuntu Translations and make sure any issues get detected and fixed well before release. If you'd like to propose any other activities (e.g. doing actual translations), please feel free to do so.
I've asked the Launchpad Translations guys and Arne to be there, and myself and probably other members of the Ubuntu Translations Coordinators team will be there as well.
The idea is to build upon the work of having rearranged and updated the translation templates, and also to have released at least the first language pack in Karmic, so that translations can be tested.
In order to give time to everyone involved in organising this, I propose a tentative date in a month's time:
- WHAT: Kubuntu Translations Day
- WHERE: #kubuntu-devel on Freenode
- WHEN: Wed 29th July 2009
Thoughts, suggestions, ideas, etc. will be very welcome.
It would be good to have some people from KDE around, because then we could help people upstream translation changes from Launchpad to KDE and raise general awareness of upstreaming changes. Are you interested in this? If so, is the date ok?
We, at Kubuntu, really hope that the ongoing changes enable us to deploy Kubuntu with the kick-arse l10n quality from KDE, in future releases. No matter what your point of view on Rosetta is, bad l10n in Kubuntu reflects badly on KDE, especially because Ubuntu is the closest alternative Linux choice.
I for one will continue fighting for perfect localization in Kubuntu. Will you join me? :)
kindest regards, Harald
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