What is an Upstream?

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Montag, den 06.11.2006, 14:29 +0100 schrieb Jordi Mallach:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:25:07PM +0530, amachu techie wrote:
> > I am the contact Person and Team Lead of Ubuntu Tamil Team. And we are a bit
> > new to these concepts. And we inndeed faced the problems of duplications. We
> > want to avoid it in future Please guide us.
> >  
> > Is there any step by step simple manual available stating what all need to be
> > done to to co-ordinate effectively with Upstream projects.
> 
> Not yet. Danilo and I intend to write some docs explaining this and
> other "best practices" pointers which will help people understanding how
> Rosetta and our upstream translation providers should/can interact.
> 
> For example, if you're translating Ubuntu's GNOME, right now it is
> desirable to be "on the loop" of what the Tamil GNOME Translators are
> doing, and translating applications in Rosetta if they don't plan to do
> it on their own (and then sending them the files so they can put them in
> GNOME CVS). If on the other hand they plan to translate gnome-panel,
> there's probably little point in translating it in Rosetta at the same
> time: it only yields in duplicate translations and Ubuntu in Tamil not
> looking like Fedora in Tamil.
> 
> Jordi

Perhaps it would be nice to have an option to not only export the whole
po file, but only messages that changed in Rosetta. Since Rosetta
reorders the messages it is quite hard to produce a good diff file.

Cheers,

Sebastian
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