Dear All,
I really want to thank you all the ones who have made it possible to
complete the first translation handoff of the 2.3 release on time
despite some conversion and tools issues and a quite rigid schedule.
In particular, thank you to:
- all Team Leads who had an hard job coordinating the translation
- all translators who had the hard job to provide the translated files
within schedule
- all reviewers who had the hard job to chek the quality
- Alessandro, Jean-Christoph, Friedel (and I am sure I am missing many
others.... so bear with me) who have never hesitated to share
information whenever they thought it was useful to other translators or
teams
- Petr Dudacek and Damien who have also sacrificed their free time and
public holidays to be online all the time and to provide support in
converting, backconverting and fixing files to make sure they can be
savely be imported
- Frank from the StarOffice release engineering for his great
flexibility and support
You ALL did a fantastic job!
As a small sign of our appreciation for your contributions, I would like
to send you some giveaways. Just send me directly an email specifying
Name
Address
Language you contributed
Preferred platform
Kind Regards,
Rafaella
Dear Translators/Localizers,
I would like to give you some information about the upcoming 2.3
update release.
Translation deadline for 2.3 is July 26th, 2007
We estimate that the wordcount to be translated for the 2.3 update
release to be approx. 3000 for the GUI and 17,000 for the Help.
Note that July 26th is also the bug fixing deadline for all language
relevant issues. After this deadline only very critical l10n bugs
will be fixed.
Release Map with translation deadlines specific for the 2.3 release
can be found at:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoRelease23
For this release following languages/teams will be translating using
the Pootle Server we recently set up on the virtuallab:
Italian, Khmer, Russian
The Sun/Globalization team (in a few cases in collaboration with some
N-L communities) will be working on the below languages:
French, Italian, German, Swedish, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese,
Dutch, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Korean, Japanese,
Hungarian, Polish
However, if you wish to contribute to the translation work for the
above listed languages - as some of the native language team did for
last release - just drop me an email specifying the volume you will
be able to translate by June 4th.
The Chinese OOo native language team will be translating the complete
update release.
In case of collaboration work between Sun and N-L teams, the
translation schedule will be:
1st handoff
delivery from Sun (for the above languages)- June 5th/6th delivery to
Sun: July 5th
The volume - based on actual wordcounts (that may vary a bit) is:
Help: 15,000
GUI: 3,000
2nd and final handoff:
delivery from Sun (for the above langauges): July 12th
delivery to Sun: July 26th
The volume of this second handoff will be estimated at the beginning
of July.
The process to follow will be:
- Sun creates issues and attaches .sdf files to translate (volume to
be decided by each Community based on their availability and resources)
- Issues will be assigned to the translation Community leads
- Community converts into po files (if any problem with that we will
take over conversion)
- Community translates the files using a translation .po editor
- Community back converts the .po files into .sdf
- Community runs gsicheck on sdf and delivers back to Sun
- Sun will import the translated files into 2.3
- Sun will carry our linguistic review on translated files
- Community will implement linguistic review results into translated
files and deliver updated files no later than UI and feature freeze
date for 2.4 release.
Hope this information is useful for you to schedule your work.
Kind Regards,
Rafaella
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