On 13 February 2014 20:28, Sebastian Humenda <shume...@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> the package descriptions of all FreeDict dictionary databases (~80) are
> auto-generated. Therefore I would like to implement the same for the
> translations: we just need a template for the language and could fill in
> our
> data.
>
> On [1] however, I just saw the possibility to get n (random) package
> descriptions via e-mail, but I want to select which packages I translate.
> Can I somehow translate requested packages?
>
>
As pointed out by Beatrice, you can specify the packages you want. However,
you don't actually need to download the descriptions first. If you send
emails with the right format they will be accepted.

Basically you send an email with the original package description and the
translation. If you've fetched something via the email interface, that's
the format you should use. Or use this as a template:

http://ddtp.debian.net/ddt.cgi?desc_id=218830&getuntrans=de

(If you do this, please use "Description-<lang>.UTF-8:" as a header to
avoid encoding issues).

In any case, if you find templates and use them to make a list of
translations, there are tools to get them into the database directly. So
focus on that part and post the result here for review. Once you get buy in
we can get them into the database.

About the email interface not working: it is certainly rarely used so
problems don't get reported quickly. But I'm not aware of any specific
issue.

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <klep...@gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/

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