Localisation efforts vs. Hoary's freeze

[Shimon]

Why not help translate?

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 01:25:26 +0100, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)
<shot at shot.pl> wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> One of the main gripes I have about Array CD 4 is the state of Polish
> localisation - the installer doesn't seem to be translated more than
> debian-installer from around August last year, and GNOME currently
> lacks a lot of translations in the main menus (basically, IIRC, the
> user is confronted with Aplikacje - Places - Desktop, and most of the
> main menus' elements are not translated either).
> 
> I'd love to help in the translation process if it's at all possible
> to change this for Hoary, but I'm not sure where to start and what
> the deadlines are. I'm pretty sure the GNOME localisation team should
> have more things translated into Polish (they lack only 4% translation
> overall), but I'm not sure how their efforts relate to Rosetta. Warty
> ended up with a very lacking Polish localisation (although GNOME 2.8
> was 100% translated into Polish); I'm not sure what was the cause, but
> it would be great if we could avoid this for Hoary.
> 
> What is the process of translating the installer? There are some totally
> untranslated screens (I did a server-custom install, so it's no wonder
> I encountered screens that most users will miss, but still I'd like them
> better translated) and there are some typos in the current translation
> as well. I also seem to remember some places where 'Debian' was not
> switched to 'Ubuntu' (as in 'Debian installer').

Becuase It is the Debian Installer and ubuntu shouldn't be stealing
any credit and woundn't

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