2009/6/11 Cá Vàng <clari...@gmail.com>: > Hello everyone. > > I am Phuong Vo, a member of the MoST project, a project that are sponsored > by the Vietnamese government to create a high quality translation of Ubuntu > and several other FOSS.(*) > > Our goal is to translating every thing included in a default Ubuntu > installtion > (GUI, help etc...), but we are having problem determine which templates need > to be translated. Just searching the templates name according to the programs > name isn't enough, there are still strings we don't know where to find. Well, > I > think given enough time, we can do it, but since we are aiming to 9.10, not > much time is left. > > So if you can, please help us making a list of templates that need to be > trans- > -lated in order to make a fully localised version of Ubuntu. It would > be great if > you can send us a list like that, but if you don't have the time, then > you could > just tell us how to do so. > > Thank in advance! > > Regards, > Phuong
Hi Phuong, This MoST project sounds good! Thanks for your interest in making Ubuntu better. I'm not sure if you've already started translating--and if you have then by what process--but in case you didn't know, Ubuntu-specific translations are centrally hosted on Launchpad (https://launchpad.net/). There is a whole area of Launchpad dedicated to translation work and many subdivisions of that for the various localizations and releases of Ubuntu. For example, here are the Vietnamese translation templates for Ubuntu 9.04: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+lang/vi. Notice that the page provides statistics regarding the number of strings that are still untranslated or need review, etc. for each template, hopefully providing the information you requested (i.e. "list of templates that need to be translated in order to make a fully localised version of Ubuntu"). You mentioned that you'd like to focus on Ubuntu 9.10; unfortunately, those translation templates aren't available yet (https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic). However, the way Launchpad is designed, at least the majority of translations you make to the 9.04 templates _should_ automatically carry over to 9.10 once it opens up for translation. That means you can start working on 9.04 as soon as early as now without worrying that your time is being wasted, even if you only care about having a localized 9.10 and won't be using 9.04 at all. I hope I've answered your questions here. Please write back if you need additional information. Regards, Evan R. Murphy -- ubuntu-translators mailing list ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators
