[OLPC-Asia] Sugar Chinese Translation questions

[Xin Wang]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:17 PM,  <tkkang at nurturingasia.com> wrote:
> Dear Duan Li and all,
>
> Thanks for the great work in getting the translation up and going. As for question here is a reply from Chris Leonard (Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator). He advice that we could get help from others from the mailist at:
>
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization
>
> Cheers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Leonard [mailto:cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 11:01 PM
> To: tkkang at nurturingasia.com
> Subject: Re: Sugar Chinese Translation questions
>
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:56 PM,  <tkkang at nurturingasia.com> wrote:
>> Dear Chris Leonard,
>>
>> Greetings from Hong Kong. I am mobilising volunteers from China to complete the Chinese translation (Chinese (China) http://translate.sugarlabs.org/zh_CN/)
>>  as quickly as possible. Since you are the Sugar Labs Team Coordinator perhaps you are the right person to ask. I received this from Duan Li who has been getting a team to do the work. Hope you can answers his questions:
>>
>> Duan Li
>
> Thank you for your efforts to contribute to Sugar localization.
>
>>
>>    Hello, T.K.
>>
>>    We have some questions about Sugar translation, maybe Sugar developer can give us the answer.
>>    Who should I ask for?
>
> The best place for questions like this is the Localization list.
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization
>
> I am happy to answer, but it is good to take advantage of the
> cumulative wisdom present on that list and to share the discussion
> with others.
>
>>    2. The string in different version activity can sync automatically?
>
> For activities (Fructose and Honey) the strings may change from
> version to version, Addition of new strings is announced on the
> localization list.  Using Sugar Update will pull the latest version of
> the activity, with the strings committed at the time the activity
> developer created a new release.  Strings completed after a version
> has been release can be updated by using the self-installing language
> packs found at:
>
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/langpacks/
>
>>    3. These is some special process on update the translation to source repository, so that the latest translation have not commit to the Sugar repository?
>
> It is necessary for a language administrator to review and commit
> completed PO files for them to be stored in the source repository and
> picked up during the build process.  In between releases, language
> packs can be used to update translations.
>
> Important Note:
> We need someone to act as language administrator for zh_CN.  Please
> have one or more of your team request lang admin for zh_CN publically
> on the localization list (giving their pootle username).
>
> More about lang admin function:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Translation_Team/Administration_QuickStart
>
>>    4. If there is a minor version update, when update from 0.94 to 0.94.1, it will update automatically on XO?
>
> Yes, installing a minor version update will also install any strings
> tha have changed (and been committed) at teh time that the release was
> built)
>
>>
>>    And
>>
>>    5. There is a plan that Sugar 0.96 will be released at the end of March, When will the translation start at?
>>    We are working on Sugar 0.96 , yet?
>
> Glucose (with no numbers) represents the strings present in the Sugar
> 0.95 development cycle, so yes ,you are already working on the strings
> that will become Sugar 0.96.  At the moment that the Sugar 0.96 is
> released the Sugar version number changes from 0.95 (development) to
> 0.96 (stable) and a Glucose 0.96 branch will be frozen in Pootle.  At
> that point and going forward, Glucose (with no numbers) will represent
> the strings of the 0.97 (development) version until the next stable
> release 0.98.  Does that make sense?
>
>
>
> More about language packs is explained here, although the page is
> somewhat out of date:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Localization/Testing
>
> More about the projects in Poolte can be found here:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Translation_Team/Pootle_Projects
>
> cjl
> Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator
>
>
>
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Thanks.

I had requested for zh_CN language administrator when I was
translating Etoys, so I think I can submit the translations to source
repo.

According to the reply from Chris Leonard, I think we can work on
Glucose 0.94 and 0.96 simultaneously, so that future release of Sugar
0.94 and 0.96 will include our updated translations.


Best Regards,

-- 
王欣 (Xin Wang)