Please notice that the protocol for reporting bugs on any contributed file to vim is to contact the file maintainer first, the vim developers list (in case the maintainer listens there, most of us do) second and the vim maintainer (at the address mentioned above) third. In general bug reports to Linux distros that are not related to packaging problems directly get lost in the cracks, unless it is some orphaned application adopted by member projects (something I appreciate deeply in Debian, btw).
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
As already said: current locale is way ahead of the curve. In fact I have already contributed a version using the ORCA glossary as guideline, same used by Javier. My last update to the file is dated January 10, 2005. I guess it wasn't updated in the official vim distribution <ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/messages/> yet.tag 206782 - wontfix thanks
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 02:18:07PM +0100, Pierre HABOUZIT wrote:
tag 206782 + wontfix thanks
I'm sorry to tell you that, but since your patch really doesn't apply
to current locale anymore, and that I don't think we have spanish naive
speaker in the team, we won't be able to use your patch.
I've revised the spanish translation of vim...
I've taken to keeping copies of the latest working versions at <http://dradul.tripod.com/vim/> so you may want to keep an eye there. Anyway, I find some of your corrections valid and in fact a valuable help in my work. Be assured that I am integrating them into my working copies as I write this and will submit new copies to the Vim maintainer and upload them to my web site. In fact I am very appreciative of the fact that you, Javier, are the first person to report bugs on the translation (of which I'm sure there are many). It is just that you didn't follow protocol so this has taken more effort and tolled more energy on you than necessary :-).
As suggested above, I strongly disagree with forking the translation without official adoption. This only brings about effort dispersion. Now, if I suddenly dropped dead, or wasn't able or williing to keep maintaining the translation, I already know that Javier could continue the work. :-).
So if you think current es l10n of vim is now good (in vim 6.3) please
close the bug, else please update the diff, and I'll integrate ASAP.
Ahh! Those" faux amis" that always bite you back and hard. I appreciate that you have taken the time to do editing work, it is really important to have peer review when doing a translation.Updated is a new es.po file based on the latest one in vim 6.3. I'm CCing also the last translator for his information. This new po file fixes some of the issues which I found and fixed in the last translation revision sent to this bug report. Alejandro fixed some of them, but there are still a number of incorrect translations which are related to bad terminology translations. Commands, for example, was translated to 'comandos' instead of 'órdenes', a 'comando' is a green beret, not a command :-)
Hopefully you will apply this revision, please also forward it to the upstream (in CC:) so that the translation can be useful for other distributions too.I would say that I'd much rather have you send me a (context or unified) diff file. You made the corrections on an older version of the file, so I'll have to integrate the changes by hand anyway.
And as you mention other distros besides Debian..., I'd much rather prefer to receive the bug reports and suggested changes directly so that eveyone can have an homogeneous version of the message catalog. That's why my address is in the file header. :-)
