Translations from the debian-installer package
Jeroen Vermeulen
jtv at canonical.com
Thu Dec 4 16:23:35 UTC 2008
Colin,
I'm sorry for replying a month after the fact. I only found your
message just now in an overflowing mailbox.
Colin Watson wrote:
> I think, at minimum, we ought to be able to have certain privileges
> attached to translations of source packages for those who can upload
> them to the relevant distribution anyway. We probably also ought to be
> able to alter translation privileges on certain source packages,
> although I think this should be the exception rather than the rule.
One thing may need some work on a case-by-case basis: the system does
not think in terms of translating a source package. Instead, what
matters is the combination of a source package name and a distribution
release series. A distribution release series, such as Intrepid, in
turn belongs to a distribution, such as Ubuntu.
Obviously we can't just attach privileges to a source package name,
since the same source package name might occur in a different
distribution (and most probably will in another release series of the
same distribution). There's always ways around it, but then the choice
comes: should a privilege be for this package in this distribution? Or
only in this release series?
> The good news is that this does not necessarily have to involve
> significant changes to Launchpad. Currently, I generate a master set of
> POT and PO files for the installer which Launchpad Translations
> administrators then upload. We could split those files into three big
> lumps: one for the strings that come directly from Debian and should not
> generally be changed; one for the strings that require branding changes
> in Ubuntu; and one for the strings that are new in Ubuntu. Those could
> then be uploaded to separate templates in Launchpad, and translators
> could be given separate advice about what to translate. We could
> maintain the filtering for this on the Ubuntu side; I don't expect that
> it would be all that difficult.
Sounds good! You could easily have three separate templates with
different descriptions in the same package.
Jeroen
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