Transifex and PackageKit

I asked for translations a few days ago for the dameon, and got a fantastic response. Thanks go out to Vojtěch Smejkal, Piotr Drąg, Daniele Costarella, Marc-André Lureau, Arnout Lok, Alon Zakai, jcome, Lubomir Kundrak, Stephan Sachse and Javier Castro for all the new .po files.

I’ve also asked Dimitris Glezos to setup Transifex for translators to alternatively use. This is an “upstream” solution, as Transifex syncs with our private development server rather than putting a layer on top such as Launchpad translations. So I can update translations directly, or get people to use Transifex – it’s a win-win situation as far as the uni-lingual maintainer (me) is concerned.

I’ve been very impressed with Transifex so far, and it seems there are over 300 people willing to use it to translate various modules. You don’t need to use Fedora to use it, and seems to make doing translations pretty trivial.

Helping to translate PackageKit

Due to the way PolicyKit works, not all the translations can be done in the client tools. The authentication dialogs come from the daemon and thus don’t get translated by the GNOME translation team. The GNOME guys are rocking doing the client stuff, but the daemon remains untranslated.

If you have a spare few minutes (only 88 short strings), please send me a .po file from this pot file. You can see what po files already exist in gitweb. I really appreciate it, thanks.

Richard.

OpenID

I've had about a billion people to ask me to enable OpenID on my blog. The only way I can enable OpenID is to also allow anonymous postings (!!) and when I do that I get 50+ spam a day to sort through. I think it's LJ just being difficult. Ideally I want to move away from LiveJournal as I have the free account that is getting more stupid every month and the spam problem is getting worse, even just allowing registered users. Does anyone know how I apply for a blog at blogs.gnome.org? I've tried, but Sorry, that email address is not allowed so I'm guessing I need a @gnome.org email address. Any other ideas?