Comments on: 2.20’s internationalization; guadec results.

By: aklapper

aklapper — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:36:50 +0000

@mart: ah, nice to know. somebody’s working on a hackergotchi if i remember guadec correctly, but seems like i’m not the only one.

@gil: oops… blame google, and get on the planet!
will repost today to the mailing list. this posting here was planned to be a part of my guadec talk, but i dropped it because it did not fit.

@arangel: sounds pretty cool, and this should work out well with some LUGs. it’s more fun to sit together and hack on something, indeed. same with bugdays.

By: Arangel

Arangel — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:43:26 +0000

Nice post. I would only add one thing about the GNOME documentation. I totally agree that to have the whole experience we should definitely try to localize it as well, but it’s more complex to do it because it’s bigger, you have longer strings to translate and you get tired very easily.

Here is a suggestion to all of the teams that want to start working on the documentation localization – Organize a translation marathon, it can take place at a university classrom or a local computer club for example during the weekend, gather all of your PC’s, laptops and make it public on your local LUG mailing lists, forums etc. Not a rellay a good way to loose a weekend but it should get most of the work done, and you get to hang out with geeks with computers all weekend.

By: Gil Forcada

Gil Forcada — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:13:34 +0000

p.s. just missed:

what about the mailinglist?

By: Gil Forcada

Gil Forcada — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:13:04 +0000

nice summary andre!

just a little complain

my blog is in http://gil.badall.net

the other one in guifi.net it’s more about my involvment in guifi.net

By: Mart Raudsepp

Mart Raudsepp — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:09:38 +0000

Good stuff. An addition comment on the POTFILES stuff:

* Regarding POTFILES.in and POTFILES.skip – if all translatable files aren’t in one of those, latest intltool will fail “make check” and all the FEATURES=test running bozos in gentoo will hate my guts. Conclusion: maintainers should run “make check” on a modern distribution (read: not some year old legacy stuff in computer terms) or get a whippin’

Also, you need a hackergotchi. Yesterday!