ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu: contemplating some string changes

[Yaron Shahrabani]

I personally will find the time to complete this task if necessary but if
you can postpone this improvement to 10.04.1 it might be better...
Yaron Shahrabani - CTO
"The Campus"
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Israeli Applicable Studies Institute
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On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Dylan McCall <dylanmccall at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi there!
>
>  With the redesigned ubiquity-slideshow I blogged about, I received a ton
> of constructive feedback. It inspired many possible string changes in
> ubiquity-slideshow's Ubuntu template. With that and some interesting details
> which have emerged now that the dust around Lucid's new stuff storm has
> settled, I have an overwhelming urge to modify about 30% of the strings :o
>
> Of course, this is an ugly position, because looking at Rosetta there are a
> bunch of full translations and some other partial ones that are rather well
> along, and I do hate to break things. (Honest!)
>
> Would it be okay for the translation effort if I upload the new strings and
> consider them frozen with documentation freeze on March 25?
>
> There would then be beta 2 and the release candidates for translations to
> be tested.
>
> A lot of this stuff is about clarification; just small changes. There is
> the odd addition (eg: Ubuntu One Music Store, useful information in the
> Empathy slide) which will completely replace old strings. I'm okay to
> prioritize things and only submit what is really important, but that could
> take a bit longer to work through (and wouldn't be as attractive in the
> end).
>
> I realize that having fancy English pales in comparison to having rich
> translations in a million different languages. So, I want to give everyone a
> heads up (just so nobody else translates the possibly doomed strings) and be
> sure this won't cause too much damage.
>
>  Thanks,
>
> Dylan McCall
>
>  PS: My thought at this point is that it would really make sense for my
> project, going forwards, to be considered a documentation package as far as
> string freeze is concerned. Anyone know how I can go about that?
>
> PPS: It occurs to me that we could probably add new translations when the
> 10.04.1 images are made, too :)
>
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