On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Hugo Doria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Dan can still host the POT files and I can only put a link to them at >> the i18n project page. I think that have a translators list on the >> page is important. This facilitates communication and can prevent >> someone translate something that is already being translated. >> > > Dan already host all pot and po files, he already gave a link to them > and to translation instructions in the string freeze announcement : > http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2008-July/018245.html > > While I am perfectly sure you only have good intentions, and the page > looks pretty cool, the content is currently not so nice. It provides > different pot files and different instructions than the pacman > project. I am worried someone could fall on that and start translating > from scratch a file that is already translated. > It also shows an incomplete and different list of translators for > pacman and libalpm. > > For a project like the installer which has currently no translations, > that is all good. > For a project like pacman which already has translations and a way to > deal with them, you should either simply give links, or integrate the > same contents, information and instructions. Starting something in > parallel for this kind of stuff does not do any good in my opinion. > > Though don't believe I am angry or anything, I am simply trying to > explain why I think the current page should be changed.
I have to side with Xavier here. Furthermore, I/we always liked to think of pacman as a "non-Arch specific" project. That is, it's attempted to be developed in a way such that other distros can actually use it, and not just Arch. So integrating translations into an Arch specific project is kinda breaking that separation _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
