Fwd: [IAEP] Comments for an Oceania project

Dear Abiword developers,

Is there any interest (or concerns) in the proposal I make below?

cjl
volunteer Sugar Labs / OLPC / eToys Pootle admin

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, May 15, 2011 at 9:14 PM
Subject: [IAEP] Commenst for an Oceania project
To: iaep <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org>, msevior@gmail.com

On Sun, May 15, 2011 , Martin Sevior <msevior@gmail.com> wrote:

On behalf of the abiword community I invite speakers of Marovo and
other Pacific Island languages to contact us on the abiword-dev
mailing lists (see http://www.abisource.com/developers/) so that we
can explain how to make a Marovo translation of AbiWord and Write.

Martin,

As you may know, we have long been pointing localizers at AbiWord and
other upstream projects:

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Translation_Team/Pootle_Projects#AbiWord

The reality is that there can be a certain inertia that makes it hard
to move localizers from one system (Pootle) to another method of
submitting (offline PO files and mailing list submission); nevermind
the multiple processes needed to get the upstream fully localized.
Another advantage is that Pootle offers excellent on-line QA tools
(e.g. msgfmt checks) and other affordances (slow accumulation of
strings is possible, collaboration workflow is enhanced, etc.).

I'd like to make a proposal for collaboration on L10n (one made to and
accepted by other upstream and downstream projects like GNASH and
Waveplace).  We can host an "unofficial" set of PO files for AbiWord
on our Pootle server.  It probably makes sense to do so in this
project:

http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/upstream_POT/

This would *not* replace AbiWord's established process (submitting to
the abi-dev mailing list), it would serve to complement it.  We would
*not* attempt to establish the commit connection from Pootle used for
locally hosted projects, that would remain a manual AbiWord process
and AbiWord would remain in control of final commits and repo
archiving; our Pootle server would merely be an optional collaboration
tool.

We can establish any additional language projects needed and upload
your existing 2.9.x and 2.8.x PO files.

What do you think?  Feel free to repost this to abi-dev for comment
and discussion with your community.

cjl
volunteer Sugar Labs / OLPC / eToys Pootle admin
Received on Fri May 20 03:26:54 2011