Hello everyone, yesterday on IRC we had a discussion with Laura (in CC), David and Jeroen regarding this team on Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/bosnianuniversetranslation I contacted the owne of the project, what follows is his reply: ###################### Quoting Milo Casagrande <m...@ubuntu.com>: Well, let me give some bit of history. I teach Operating Systems course at University of Sarajevo, and my students can choose kind of homework for 10% of the final grade. The most of students prefer to translate Ubuntu to Bosnian language. Yearly they are about 60 students who participate in this project. In previous years, Launchpad allowed translation of KDE and big part of GNOME, so there was enough job for all of them. Launchpad is wonderful for coordinating such project, it has big translation memory, and I do not need to send po files to every student. And it is much better and faster than Pootle. But Launchpad Ubuntu started to decline, it first dropped XFCE, then ekiga, then synaptics, then Firefox, then many GNOME applications, then KOffice and finally all of KDE. In Ubuntu repository alone there is no enough strings for all participants. As sending po files by E-mail is not practical, I set up this repository. Currently I use it for translating KDE (Bosnian only), until yesterday 4.9, and now I started to translate 4.10. My students used this repository to translate KDE 4.9 and I uploaded it on December 21 to upstream KDE (about 35000 new strings), so it is not true that is was not used anywhere else (however only for Bosnian language). I have also access to LibreOffice upstream, and currently I negotiate with GNOME. I had one problem with exporting, though. After exporting, Launchpad Contributors in Your Names field is messy, and repeated after each exporting. So, I had to manually fix it. The semester is approaching to its end, so I do not expect large activity on bosnianuniversetranslation after January 24. However, is there any hope, that this "wait a litle bit" for general universe translation site will be ready before September 2013? There are promises for it since 2008, but I am only witness of reduction of main repository. ################### The project seems also, in some way, reasonable, looks like they are working with upstream too. Only they are importing an enormous amount of PO files, for one team's sake. I'm not so sure how to deal with it in this case... any suggestions? Ciao. -- Milo Casagrande <m...@ubuntu.com> _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-translations-coordinators Post to : ubuntu-translations-coordinators@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-translations-coordinators More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
