[OLPC-Asia] Sugar Chinese Translation questions

lite li litekok at gmail.com
Sun Feb 19 22:40:33 EST 2012


On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Xin Wang <dram.wang at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:

Dear Dram,

  You are administrator! That's great!!

  Could you share with us something to improve our translation?

BR,

>>
>> 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)
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