On 6/20/06, Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/15/06, Muhammad Waqas Alam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Christian and Danilo, > > There was no reply from Shahzad, the current coordinator of the Urdu > > translations, for over a week. The initial e-mail was sent at > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2006-June/msg00037.html > > > > Is it possible to arrange now to change the Urdu coordinator? > > I am interested in becoming the coordinator of the GNOME Urdu Localisation > > effort. > > Dear Muhammad, I am sorry for the delay. > > I and many others would obviously love to see GNOME finally get some > Urdu support, but past experiences with past Urdu coordinators have > left me a little suspicious. > > You see, the current Urdu coordinator (Shahzad Chohan) took over the > Urdu coordinatorship after the coordinator before him (Adeel Munir) > had proven to do nothing at all, not ever producing a single Urdu > translation, nor responding to any requests. This was in March 2004 > (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2004-March/msg00268.html). > > Now we are here, several years later, in the exact same position, but > now it's with Shahzad Chohan -- he has also failed to produce and > contribute a single message of Urdu, so the Urdu stats is still 0%, > and he doesn't respond to mails either. > > So you probably see why I am frustrated and suspicious about the > situation. To ease my mind, could you please give me a reference > (preferrably an URL) that points to past Urdu translations that you > have produced? It would be a lot of help in determining that this time > it's "for real", before we make a decision about the new > coordinatorship for Urdu.
Ok, I have taken a look at http://projects.urduweb.org/ and http://l10n.urduweb.org/entrans/main.php and what's there in GNOME translations is obviously not much (yet), but at least it's a start. I have added the gtk+ and gnome-desktop translations from there to upstream GNOME CVS now, so they will eventually show up on http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.16/ur/developer-libs/ and http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.16/ur/desktop/ respectively. I hope that is okay with you. Muhammad, I have made you the new Urdu coordinator in GNOME now. I have updated the http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/teams.html page; please make sure the listing is correct. Furthermore, I have created a component in Bugzilla, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=l10n , that can be used for bug reporting. Please also verify the correctness of that listing. You're most welcome as the new Urdu coordinator. Please make sure to cooperate with other Urdu volunteers that want to join. The rules for translator CVS access can be found at http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/RequestingAnAccount , as you can see, you will have to contribute some more complete translations and have had them committed to GNOME CVS before you can have an account of yourself. Just send an URL with the translations that you want added to this list and ask for someone to commit the translations for you. When you feel that you've contributed enough complete translations to fulfill the requirements listed on the RequestingAnAccount page, then send an account request. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask, either here on this list or on the #i18n channel on irc.gnome.org. Christian _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
