Localisation efforts vs. Hoary's freeze

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:04:33PM +0100, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote:
> Colin Watson:
> > I'm hoping we'll have a good answer to this involving Rosetta soon.
> > Failing that, http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/installer-po/pl.po
> > is the master Polish .po file for everything in the first stage.
> 
> Googling for .po utilities I've remembered hearing about Pootle,
> and lo and behold, it seems they're translating debian-installer:
> http://pootle.wordforge.org/projects/debianinstaller/

I didn't know about that.

> What are the general differences between debian-installer and
> ubuntu-installer with regards to localisation? Is it worth to
> try to merge the changes from d-i's .po file?

We already do merge translation changes from d-i as part of general
merging. However, we have changed some strings, so simply merging is not
enough.

> Is Pootle the official site for debian-installer localisation?

No. Talk to Christian Perrier in Debian for that.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]