new member

[Khaled Hosny]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:00:11AM +0300, Usama Akkad wrote:
> Salam,
> I would like to join the translators team. I also would like to have the
> review privileges so I make sure that good translations go through.

You can start by suggesting translations then providing links to your
translation here, once I'm confident about the quality of your
translation you'll get team membership with full translation access.

> many of the team members already know me and I adopt the Arabeyes.org
> team point of view on translation
> 
> one of the reason caused me to come here is this:
> http://www.linuxac.org/forum/showthread.php?38997
> 
> screen-shots from 10.04 Ubuntu Lucid showing the package that will stick
> for ever and no update will fix it.it's Ubuntu installer. you can easily
> notice that on the same page there is both Arabic and English messages.

Translation deadline already passed and no new translations will be
imported.

The installer were fully translated early in the cycle, but they kept
changing the sideshow, sometimes very minor changes, but launchpad is a
very stupid tool forcing me re-translate the string every time, even
though the old translation might be perfectly usable. I did criticise
this publicly on Ubuntu translators mailing list and decided to protest
by not updating that translation; Canonical need to fix their crappy
tool before forcing it on every one.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer