Translation
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee
Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks for Translations
In addition to the Final software translation period (including translation and review) that ends on March 23rd 2010), new tasks related to translation would be on track are on schedule for the upcoming week. These include translation of beta release notes (11th March-5th April 2010), coordination with fedora-devel requesting for new builds of all packages that have been translated (16th March-23rd March 2010)[1].
Transifex v 0.8 Release and translate.fp.org Upgradation
FLSCo chair and Transifex developer Dimitris Glezos announced[1] the release of Transifex v.0.8, code named Magneto. This release includes new features like Translation Teams, Translation Reviews, Timeline, advanced Notifications features, Subversion over https etc.
In response to a query regarding the upgradation of the transifex version in use on translate.fedoraproject.org, Dimitris suggested[2] a direct upgrade to v. 0.8 instead of v. 0.7.4 which has been staged and is being tested currently . However, Paul W. Frields voiced his concern[3] that this move may hinder the current upgrade process that is expected to solve most of the reported problems faced by the translation team. This was supported by FLSCo member Noriko Mizumoto[4]. Piotr Drag[5] pointed that the 'Translation Team' feature in v.0.8 is currently not implementable in for transifex instance to be used in translate.fedoraproject.org.
Paul Frields, also suggested that the bugs reported against the staged instance be collected and the blocker bugs be marked to help the Fedora Infrastructure team take decisions for the actual productization[6]. Currently, Fedora Infrastructure is on a freeze for the Fedora 13 Alpha release.
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007059.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007072.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007079.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007082.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007073.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007071.html
Translated String Missing from gnome-packagekit
In response to a query posted[1] by Danish translator Kris Thomsen about the location of the string 'Add/Remove Software' (System => Administration => Add/Remove Software from the main panel), Domingo Becker pointed out[2] that although the the translation for this string existed in the gnome-packagekit package (hosted in the GNOME repositories), the translated version is not being used on the User Interface. Ville-Pekka Vainio informed[3] that this problem was most likely being caused due to an error in the gnome-packagekit build process, due to which the respective .desktop file is being improperly generated. This has been filed as a bug earlier and has been discussed with the package maintainer Richard Hughes. Currently, the error persists in the development version.
New Members in FLP
Dmitry Drozdov (Russian)[1], Cheng-Chia Tseng (Traditional Chinese)[2], Illias Romanos (Greek)[3] joined the Fedora Localization Project recently.