[Localization] [IAEP] Help to Find the PO file of Some Activities to able me to Translate Them

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 17:32, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On 24 May 2009, at 11:47, David Van Assche wrote:
>
>> Overall it would be nice if we had an activitiy matrix that showed the
>> stages of projects.
>
> The Activity Team have been making contact with past authors, slowly, slowly
> we're moving along even if it means adopting extra activities ourselves:

This is awesome, congrats for the very well done job to date!

I would recommend to mention who is requesting attention to the
activity when contacting the authors. It's very comforting knowing
about real world usage of your software and I'm sure that will be very
motivating for them.

Regards,

Tomeu

>        http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Activity_Status
>
> The best thing folks can do If they have a favourite activity that is not
> yet migrated to Sugar Labs infrastructure is make some noise about it. Email
> the IAEP and/or sugar-devel and advocate or ask about it, email the
> author/s, see if they are still working on it or have future plans. Many
> activity developers seem to think no one is interested/using their work and
> often seem pleasantly surprised when they get an email about their past
> efforts.
>
>> This would be helpful to show what people could work on to. Something
>> like, name of activity on one side, and on the other stage (planning,
>> pre-source, alpha, beta, rc, release, packaged, xo bundled, translated)
>> Something along those lines, but I'm sure someone can come up with a better
>> matrix. If this was up at some place, we could know pretty quickly what
>> people could be working on. It could even be split by distro too... The idea
>> came to me because there are a ton of git projects with no code in them.
>
> If there are git projects with no code in them, what makes you think the
> developer will edit another page somewhere else with project status
> information! ;-b
>
> With my activity developer hat on, I do find it a pain how many seemingly
> random places there are to work on when releasing a new version, even more
> for a new project, or migrated one. My check-list/todo-list is something
> like:
>
> If it's a new project:
>
> - Create a Gitorious project repository for it http://git.sugarlabs.org/ and
> start hacking on your code
>
> - Request a trac component for you activity at http://dev.sugarlabs.org/
>
> - Open a trac ticket to request addition to Pootle (if your strings/release
> is reasonably mature/ready)
>
> - Create a page at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/<actvity-name>
>
> If it's a new release:
>
> - Update your activities wiki page at
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/<actvity-name>
>
> - Upload the .xo bundle, screenshots, notes to
> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/
>
> - Upload .bz2 source to shell.sugarlabs.org /upload/sugar/sources/honey
>
> - Edit wiki table
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Source_Code and make sure it's
> pointing to your latest .bz2
>
> - Edit wiki table http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap to
> get it on Soas
>
> - Write a [RELEASE] <activity-name-version> email and send it to sugar-devel
>
> If the project is migrating from olpc infrastructure:
>
> - Migrate git repository from http://dev.laptop.org/
>
> - Migrate open trac tickets from http://dev.laptop.org/
>
> - Track down relevant wiki.laptop.org pages and indicate the migration
>
> - For deployed activities make sure relevant
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities page version templates point to the
> correct/latest working bundles.
>
> I'm sure I missed a step or two, but I think you get the picture!
>
>> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> Hi Mohammad,
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 06:36, Mohammad Hamed <m.hamed at paiwastoon.com.af>
>> wrote:
>> > Dear Software Translators,
>> >
>> > Could you please tell me how can I translate some Activities like:
>> > Physics, X2O, WFP, Implode, Conozco Uruguay to my language?
>
> FWIW: Having spoken with Alex Levenson yesterday, I've started to migrate
> Physics over to Suage Labs infrastructure (X2o is next on my list). It runs
> fine on sugar-jhbuild, but does need some UI work and clean-up before I
> request addition to pootle for translation, or upload a bundle to
> activities.sugarlabs.org. I also mailed Jo Lee (Implode) about his
> availability, will migrate that over as well if he doesn't have the time at
> the moment.
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
>> >
>> > If you could tell me that how can I find the PO file of the activities
>> > it
>> > would be easier for me to translate them.
>>
>> Looks like these activities are not in pootle yet. What I think we
>> should do is to contact the maintainers and work with them so their
>> activities are translatable in pootle. If the activities have no
>> active maintainers, then perhaps the Activity Team could adopt them?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>> > Sincerely,
>> >
>> > --------
>> > Mohammad Hamed
>> > User Service Officer
>> > One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project
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>> >
>> > Email: m.hamed at paiwastoon.com.af
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>> > Phone:  0093 794 195494
>> >
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>> >
>> > www.paiwastoon.com.af
>> > www.olpc.af
>> >
>> >
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