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

[David Van Assche]

Super... that methodology should be written up some place as its a great
guide to follow...

David

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 5:32 PM, 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:
>
>        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
>> > PAIWASTOON Networking Services Ltd.
>> >
>> > Email: m.hamed at paiwastoon.com.af
>> > Mobile: 0093 786 876546
>> > Phone:  0093 794 195494
>> >
>> > PAIWASTOON Networking Services Ltd.
>> > 1st street Kart-e-Se, Darul Aman Road
>> > Kabul, Afghanistan
>> >
>> > www.paiwastoon.com.af
>> > www.olpc.af
>> >
>> >
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