[Ubuntu-be] Just a few questions.

[Stani]

Wouter Horré wrote:
>>  > development. So the packages I write, is it best to do i English (so
>>  > the whole ubuntu community could use it) or to make it in
>>  > Dutch/French?
>>
>>  English - that way everyone can translate the package to their favourite
>>  language.
>>     
> > 3. About myself, I would like to participate general in package
>
> Packages should definitely be in English.
>   
It is good before developing your application to study gettext so your 
application can easily be translated. Without giving too much details, 
the process is not that difficult. Every string which should be 
translated, should be surrounded by the _() function, for example 
_('translate me'). Afterwards I advise you to use a program such as 
poedit (sudo apt-get install poedit), which will extract all strings 
automatically for translation and allow you to translate your program in 
any language you want. The exact details are dependent of your 
programming language and out of scope for this mailing list. Probably 
you better.
>>  >  4.  Is there somewhere a list of package requests?
>>     
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=needs-packaging

If you want your program to be packaged there, file a "needs-packaging" 
bug against ubuntu on launchpad.
>>  I don't know - someone else should answer this.
>>     
>
> Take a look at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/GettingStarted
>   
MOTU (Masters of the Universe) is the team of which you can become a 
member after some hard training, which packages all not officially 
supported packages. MOTU's are friendly people and you can ask for help 
in #ubuntu-motu on IRC with Pidgin. There was just an Ubuntu Developers 
Week of which the logs will be very useful to you:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek

The best approach is to package your programs for Debian and afterwards 
they can get easily synced for Ubuntu.

I advise you to participate in the 5 bugs a day project as a good 
starting point:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day

Good luck,
Stani
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