I guess basque was lucky, as I was able translate it (webfav is the only one not ready yet). for example, a bad translation already corrected: https://translations.edge.launchpad.net/netbook-remix-launcher/trunk/+pots/netbook-launcher/eu/10/+translate
maybe, been one of the first in the alphabet got us in the front row of import? On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Kyle Nitzsche <kyle.nitzs...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > The translations were done upstream partly by Ubuntu Translators and partly > by professional translators. Google translator was never used, nor was > anything "imported" from anywhere. Everyone took the work seriously and did > the best job they could, which does not mean there are no errors. However, I > am a little surprised that you have found bad translations in Rosetta since > the translations have not been imported yet and are currently empty... > > Cheers, > Kyle > > > Mikel Pascual wrote: >> >> I missed this one. Thanks for the announcement. >> >> By the way, where did these translations come from? I mean, they >> appear to be translated by Kyle, so I guess he imported them from >> somewhere. >> I had to change a lot of them (lot of them seemed to be >> GoogleTranslator-made, nonsense). Maybe I should check any translation >> coming from that source. >> >> >> >> 2009/9/11 David Planella <david.plane...@ubuntu.com>: >> >>> >>> Hi translators, >>> >>> We're pleased to announce that UNR translations are now open for Karmic. >>> >>> This is being done as part of the public UNR Karmic translations spec >>> [1]. Previously we had announced that translations were open in the >>> upstream project [2], which should be the primary target for ongoing >>> translation activities. >>> >>> This is now the second step: opening up downstream Karmic translations >>> for corrections and updates through the usual language pack mechanism. >>> >>> Let me stress this again: the upstream project should still be the >>> primary source for translation in Karmic and Karmic+1, and those >>> translations will then flow downstream to the distribution, where we >>> recommend that only bug fixes are performed. >>> >>> If you want to start translating for a new language during the stable >>> release, we also recommend doing this upstream and then using the global >>> suggestions feature (point and click) to translate downstream and let >>> the new language be included in the regular language packs. >>> >>> The reason we adopted this approach is to minimize later work to >>> upstream (i.e. applying downstream translation fixes to the upstream >>> project) Karmic translation work. >>> >>> Here you'll find the links to the translations: >>> >>> https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/netbook-launcher >>> https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/desktop-switcher >>> https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/go-home-applet >>> >>> https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/window-picker-applet >>> >>> We also mentioned webfav in the past, which is a Firefox extension to >>> bookmark favourites that contains one translatable string. We're still >>> working on this, as it requires non-trivial packaging changes for >>> exporting the translations to the language packs. The release date being >>> near, it is very unlikely that this is done for Karmic. On the positive >>> side, the extension has already got translations for 30 languages. >>> >>> More information: >>> >>> * [1] Blueprint: >>> >>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/mobile-unr-karmic-translations >>> * [2] Upstream project links: https://translations.launchpad.net/unr >>> * Previous announcement: >>> >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2009-August/002692.html >>> >>> Please, do not hesitate to ask if you've got any questions, and happy >>> translating! >>> >>> Regards, >>> David and Kyle. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ubuntu-translators mailing list >>> ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > -- ubuntu-translators mailing list ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators
