Re: [Tails-l10n] Swedish translation of launchers and the sm…

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Author: winterfairy
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To: Tails localization discussion
Subject: Re: [Tails-l10n] Swedish translation of launchers and the smaller tails programs
> Hi,
>
> sajolida@??? wrote (12 May 2013 18:06:08 GMT) :
>> On 05/05/13 16:39, winterfairy@??? wrote:
>>> 0003-Swedish-translation-of-the-smaller-Tails-programs.patch
>>>
>>> In the 0003 patch I added a new folder with the Swedish po files. I do
>>> not
>>> know if I need to change anything anywhere so they get compiled to mo
>>> files when building the ISO. Can someone that knows how the ISO
>>> creation
>>> works make that change in that case, thanks.
>
>> This one being slightly more complex I'll ask for review before applying
>> it.
>
> The thing is, in order to make things simpler for us, to simplify the
> translators docs, and also to enable us to put a bit more trust into
> the translations we ship in Tails, we're moving towards a model where
> there are only two ways to contribute translations to Tails:
>
>   * Transifex: to be able to trust the resulting translations, we rely
>     on the relatively high exposure of proposed translations, on the
>     Transifex review process, and on the social dynamics of
>     that place.

>
>   * translation teams using Git: every team member's work is reviewed
>     by one other team member, then we're asked to pull.

>
> So, unfortunately, translations contributed by a lone individual on
> this mailing-list are a bit hard for us to trust (no offense intended)
> and integrate, and will probably soon be entirely deprecated.
>
> Even more unfortunately, we currently don't push our smaller programs
> strings to Transifex, so the only long-term way to maintain
> translations thereof is:
>
>   * Either you (winterfairy) find accomplices who will be happy to
>     learn and use Git, so that you can set up a Swedish translation
>     team -- does this seem possible to you?

>
>   * Or we find a way to push these strings to Transifex, and you
>     contribute your work there. This should not be too hard, but we're
>     super-busy so help would be welcome!

>
> What do you think?
>


Since getting all translatable resources to Transifex would be the ideal
solution, that is where to aim. Transifex already has support for all
filetypes used by Tails (po-files and desktop-files), so that shouldn't be
any problem.

I am willing to help, but I need to know where help is needed. What is the
time consuming task that currently is preventing you from doing this?