Re: About distributions patches to consider inclusion for a future 2.8.7 release

El mié, 20-07-2011 a las 09:32 -0400, Chris Leonard escribió:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Pacho Ramos <pachoramos@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > El mar, 19-07-2011 a las 19:37 -0400, Keith BOWES escribió:
> >> Je 2011-Jul-18 je 19:07, Pacho Ramos skribis:
> >>
> >> Wait. I thought there would be no more 2.8.x releases. There was a big
> >> hubbub on here about the translations/wasted effort/years to getting to
> >> end users.
> >>
> >> > - gcc-4.6 compilation issues: It has been reported to:
> >> > http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13066
> >> Ugh, I do wonder why GCC breaks something in every new version.
> >>
> >
> > Per IRC conversation looked like it could be a new release for 2.8.x
> > series, any would be nice for distributions to let us not needing to
> > carry a lot of patches, or is Abiword-3 release planned soon?
> >
> >
>
> >From the localization perspective, and as as an interested party in a
> downstream distributor of AbiWord (via OLPC builds), I would give a +1
> to a 2.8.x release if only to take advantage of the improvements to
> L10n that can be had from the hosting of the AbiWord PO files on
> Pootle. I have gone through many of the languages looking for severe
> errors (e.g. printf errors) and tried to make corrections where
> possible in 2.8 PO files, or at least flag the strings as fuzzy and in
> need of attention by a native speaker.
>
> It is a very simple matter to transfer improved 2.9 strings to the 2.8
> PO file via Poolte (with an upload/overwrite of 2.9 over 2.8 and an
> update from Templates back to a proper 2.8 PO template) as 2.8 is
> more or less a simple subset of 2.9 (string-wise). I would encourage
> localizers to complete and review the 2.9 PO file and contact me about
> performing the transfer to 2.8.
>
> cjl
>

Any news on this? Thanks
Received on Wed Aug 31 14:59:09 2011