Re: [Duplicity-talk] Translations

[Kenneth Loafman]

Yes, I'm interested in starting this, but have no time to commit.  If
you wish to spearhead the effort, feel free.  I'll give you what support
I can.

...Ken

Michael Terry wrote:
> Ken, did I not sell you on the fun of maintaining translations?  :)
> 
> What's the level of interest in this?
> 
> -mt
> 
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Michael Terry <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Dan Muresan <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> As for translating new strings as they happen, the string will remain
>>>> in English until someone translates it.
>>> Will users see mixed-language output in that case (say, French for the
>>> strings that have been translated and English for "newer" strings)? That
>>> doesn't look like a great option.
>> Not terrible.  Better than nothing.  Most languages will never fully
>> be translated anyway (i.e. the translator won't do all the strings in
>> one go).
>>
>>
>>> On the other hand, "synchronizing" all translations when a release is
>>> near would seemingly involve major delays (and possibly dropping a
>>> language if its speaksrs lose interest)
>>>
>>> How does this get taken care of normally?
>> Big, organized projects like GNOME do string freezes near the end of a
>> release cycle to give translators time.  For a project like duplicity,
>> it's probably fine just to do a release and get translations after the
>> fact that get pulled for later releases.  Depends on how seriously one
>> takes language support.
>>
>> -mt
>>
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