Author: Colin Childs Date: To: sajolida, Tails localization discussion, Alan Subject: Re: [Tails-l10n] Temporary Transifex resource for new Tails Greeter
On 17/11/16 02:02 PM, Colin Childs wrote: > Hi Sajolida,
>
> I will work on getting this resource online today and should have it
> available for translation by tomorrow at the latest.
>
> To answer your second question, the main things I can do that you cannot
> is reorganize teams, add resources, add people to teams and accept new
> languages. I can also do the expected things like reconfigure details
> about the hub.
>
> The main things that would be lost switching to your own hub would be
> the current community of translators working on Tor Project strings, as
> well as git on the Tor Project side for storing strings.
>
> Please let me know if I can offer any further support here. My
> availability has dramatically increased as I have recently become a full
> time employee of the Tor Project, so translation tasks are being handled
> much faster.
>
> On 17/11/16 12:53 PM, sajolida wrote:
>> Hi Colin,
>>
>> I'm putting tails-l10n@???, which is our translators mailing list,
>> and Alan, who's the main author of Tails Greeter, in copy.
>>
>> We have been working for years on a complete redesign and rewrite of
>> Tails Greeter. We're about to get there and will release it together
>> with Tails 3.0 at some point in 2017.
>>
>> The user-visible strings are ready and we would like to make the PO file
>> available on Transifex to have it translated when we release it. But we
>> also want to keep the current PO file for the current version. Yes, both
>> version are too different to combine both PO files.
>>
>> I guess we should create a new resource for the new version, temporarily
>> available in parallel of the current version. The POT file for the new
>> version can be tracked in a dedicated branch, but it has the same name
>> as the current version:
>>
>> https://git-tails.immerda.ch/greeter/tree/po/tails-greeter.pot?h=feature/revamp_phase1 >>
>> How should we go about that? We could name it tails-greeter-2.pot during
>> the transition maybe.
>>
>> And while we're talking about Transifex, I sometimes wonder whether
>> Tails should have their own Transifex project under the umbrella or the
>> Localization Lab. Because right now, I think we have an account with
>> very limited permissions (pretty much like a translators I think). On
>> the other hand, having our resources along with yours is probably good
>> to have them translated by more people and possibly faster...
>>
>> What do you think? Can you summarize quickly what's possible to do with
>> you type of Transifex account that's not currently possible with our
>> type of Transifex account?
>>
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