Summary of Fortnightly Meeting - June 27th 2006

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Thursday 29 June 2006 21:28, Chris Goerner <cgoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Matthew Vermeulen wrote:
> > On 6/28/06, *Sridhar Dhanapalan* wrote:
> >>    Ah, good point. How should we deal with this? Maybe we should take
> >>     en_GB and
> >>     make some minor modifications to 'convert' it to en_AU?
> >
> > This is exactly what was proposed some time ago, however, it appears
> > that this is not possible at the moment.... I hope I'm wrong.
>
> Given the current launchpad platform, we can achieve this by *manually*
> exporting translations from en_GB and importing into en_AU.  But unless
> we can submit translations back to en_GB, we have no way of sharing the
> work between locales.
>
> I will email members of the en_GB translators team to start some
> discussion on this matter.

I'd love to hear the outcome of this discussion, and contribute if I can. This 
affects all English variants, not just en_AU, so I see it as being very 
important.

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