Hi guys, First of all, you may have read on the ML mageia-dev that the freeze is reported to the 13th of May (instead of tomorrow, May 10th), i.e. on Friday. So, we get a little more time to finish or polish our translations and to commit them to the SVN, and I remind you Oliver's instructions: the top priority is to translate the "drakx_" projects (the projects whose name on Tx begins with "drakx_") and draklive-install. Those are projects relative to the installer and we can't modify the installer once the ISOs are released. The other projects may be translated later thanks to updates.
Second, it seems that some teams don't follow the general process which was given for translations. Some of you begin the translation from scratch on Tx while 90% of the strings were already translated on the SVN, or import the po files from Mandriva's SVN. That is wrong. So, what is the general process? It has been posted here many times, but here it is again so that everyone can apply it: 1) When there is no translation on Tx for a project, download the corresponding po file on Mageia's SVN. Please be sure to download from Mageia's SVN and not Mandriva's, for the po files on our SVN have been cleaned. You can find a list of the URLs to the SVN for each project here: http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=translators:transifex_list_of_projects 2) Upload the downloaded po file to Tx, as a translation for the corresponding project. You will see that most of the strings are already localised, and that you just have to translate the remaining ones (and maybe proofread all the strings if you have enough time). Here is a short guide for Tx: http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=translators:tx_short_guide 3) Once the file is fully translated, or if you don't have the time to finish it before the freeze, download the modified po file from Tx, and commit it back to Mageia's SVN. Committers are generally local teams leaders, so you can ask them to do it. If you don't know who is/are the team leader(s) for your team, please ask us here on the ML. Here is a guide for committers if you're not used to SVN: http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=translators:tx_commiter_guide (Again, you can ask here for help). I think that's it. If there is anything you don't understand or disagree with, please tell us. Don't start a translation from scratch on your own (unless Mandriva was not translated to your language, of course); it is a loss of time and of efficiency. Regards, Rémi / Akien
