[Localization] The new Sugar Roadmap and other things

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:22 AM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>> As you might have already noticed elsewhere, we have a new roadmap and
>>>> schedule for our software stack.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Also, admins, please remember to commit your translations once you
>>>> think they are ready to go into the official sources that we have.
>>>> There is no point in having translations in Pootle only ;-).
>>>
>>> What is the procedure for committing translations? "Show editing
>>> functions" mode does not include a commit button. The
>>> Pootle/Administration page is confusing and out-of-date. Can we get an
>>> actual list of project+language admins, given that the table on the
>>> Pootle page is woefully incomplete? Although I documented the various
>>> places to sign up on the Localization page, and the information needed
>>> in Trac for requesting new projects, it isn't working. If I can get
>>> somebody to create forms for these functions, can we install them and
>>> link to them from the Wiki and from Pootle?
>>>
>>
>> If you do not get a "commit" button, it usually signifies that you
>> don't have the relevant rights. Which project and language is this ?
>
> Haitian Kreyòl and Cambodia Khmer. I was sure that I was Administrator
> on both, but my My Account page on Pootle doesn't say what my status
> is.
>


Grr... my mistake. I overlooked a few things. Now it should work.

>> I will try to modify my team page generation script so that it shows
>> the administrators as well, though this is going to be a bit tricky,
>> since we have per project administrators for a language, and not per
>> language administrators.
>
> How is "project" defined? I don't see an explanation in the Wiki, so I
> have probably been using the term incorrectly.
>

A project is a set of related PO files - eg: XO Core is a project, and
so is XO Bundled.
A project may also contain a single PO file, eg: Etoys.

> How can we make sure that you have contact information for all of the
> project members? How can we share contact information for all
> administrators? How can I contact the team for a stalled project? How
> can I join a stalled project where there is no contact information
> visible?
>

Ermm.. as I have stated earlier, I can do a automatic page generation
from the Pootle data, with the contact details of project
administrators (as well as the translators, if you want). However, I
am still not very sure how many administrators would appreciate that.
I will try to see if I can hack a feature within Pootle which lets a
translator of a given language contact the other translators of that
language.

Thanks,
Sayamindu


> Can we talk to management about hiring a full-time Web developer and
> sysadmin? and a Localization manager who actually knows the difference
> between Russian and Ukrainian keyboards and suchlike? And someone to
> catch all the stuff that keeps falling in cracks and holes? These are
> mostly not supposed to be your responsibilities.
>
>> Thanks,
>> Sayamindu
>>
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>> Sayamindu Dasgupta
>> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
>>
>
>
>
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> Edward Cherlin
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Sayamindu Dasgupta
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