UI freeze exception request for 2 Ubuntu One packages
David Planella
david.planella at ubuntu.com
Thu Mar 8 16:04:29 UTC 2012
Al 08/03/12 15:06, En/na Tom Davies ha escrit:
> Hi :)
> Have you been able to push this further forwards yet? I still can't see
> the team listed at
> https://translations.launchpad.net/+groups/ubuntu-translators
>
> I thought we had established that the necessary steps had been worked
> through?
The request has been filed, but Emmanuel needs to create a team as the
next step:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-translations/+question/189828
Cheers,
David.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
> --- On *Tue, 6/3/12, Emmanuel Habumuremyi /<emmahab2008 at gmail.com>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: Emmanuel Habumuremyi <emmahab2008 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: UI freeze exception request for 2 Ubuntu One packages
> To: "Tom Davies" <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk>
> Cc: "David Planella" <david.planella at ubuntu.com>,
> ubuntu-translators at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Tuesday, 6 March, 2012, 10:07
>
> Great Tom!
> 1. That's true. I have not found any team on Kinyarwanda to join.
> 2. About 11 million people speak Kinyarwanda in Rwanda, but current
> estimation says that more than 20 million can understand Kinyarwand
> (Southern Uganda, Western Tanzania, Eastern Kongo Kinshasa and the
> whole Burundi).
> 3.a) Yes, Steve Murphy was the active person on Ubuntu and its
> related issues. I know him, he was in Rwanda for some time in the past.
> b) I think the keyboard by Steve can be conssidered. Apart from
> that, Kiswahili one if exists can be almost similar to Kinyarwanda one.
> c) Iam not sure whether there are specific fonts for Kinyarwanda.
> NEXT STEP...
> I have already created a team for Kinyarwanda and I will do my best
> to invite other people to join. I was wondering whether you could
> allow me work on translation. It is still closed for me.
> Regards,
> Emmanuel Habumuremyi
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk
> </mc/compose?to=tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
>
> Hi :)
> So i guess that you have already
> 1. hunted around to see if there is an existing team already
> doing the translations and found none? I didn't find one at
> https://translations.launchpad.net/+groups/ubuntu-translators
> I looked for Rwanda and Kinyarwanda and neither currently exists.
> 2. 12million people speak Kinyarwanda according to wikipedia
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinyarwanda
> so it's real in the world today spoken by people naturally in
> their daily lives.
> 3. Locale, keyboards and fonts.
> a) A local was created by Steve Murphy and Mr. Safali in 2004, rw_RW
> http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=localedata/locales/rw_RW;h=437df4bb2c893b8762d42f577dc2d660b727daab;hb=HEAD
> b) I'm not sure if you have a different keyboard or can use an
> existing one that is close enough to what you need?
> c) Is there a font that people will recognise and is comparable
> to written Kinyarwanda?
>
> So, the next step is to create a new team
> https://launchpad.net/people/+newteam
> You have to decide whether to call the name by the name of the
> language or the name of the country(s) where is is most widely
> spoken. I think people generally pick the name of the language.
>
> It might seem stupid to have to create a team when you know that
> you are going to be the only person in the team but that is the
> required next step before doing translations. Also you might
> find other people join the team unexpectedly which help.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
> --- On *Mon, 5/3/12, David Planella /<david.planella at ubuntu.com
> </mc/compose?to=david.planella at ubuntu.com>>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: David Planella <david.planella at ubuntu.com
> </mc/compose?to=david.planella at ubuntu.com>>
> Subject: Re: UI freeze exception request for 2 Ubuntu One
> packages
> To: "Emmanuel Habumuremyi" <emmahab2008 at gmail.com
> </mc/compose?to=emmahab2008 at gmail.com>>
> Cc: ubuntu-translators at lists.ubuntu.com
> </mc/compose?to=ubuntu-translators at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Monday, 5 March, 2012, 16:00
>
> Al 05/03/12 16:56, En/na Emmanuel Habumuremyi ha escrit:
> > Hi,
> > Thanks for the quick answer. I do software localization
> in my hobby. My
> > language is Kinyarwanda:
> >
> http://panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/RwandaRundi
> > I used to work on Linux in Kinyarwanda. I have done
> English in BA and
> > have a Master in New Media.
> > Regards,
> >
>
> Hi Emmanuel,
>
> Thanks for letting us know about your language.
>
> Could you please fully answer the questions I asked on my
> previous
> e-mail, so that we can help you further? I'm adding them
> again below:
>
> * What's your language and where is the request you filed to
> create a team?
> * Did you follow the steps on
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/KnowledgeBase/StartingTeam
> as
> pointed to in the Launchpad page?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> David.
>
>
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> >
> > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 5:48 PM, David Planella
> > <david.planella at ubuntu.com
> <http://mc/compose?to=david.planella@ubuntu.com>
> <mailto:david.planella at ubuntu.com
> <http://mc/compose?to=david.planella@ubuntu.com>>> wrote:
> >
> > Al 05/03/12 16:42, En/na Emmanuel Habumuremyi ha escrit:
> >
> > Hi,
> > When am I going to be allowed to translate? Whenever I
> login to the
> > launchpad, I am asked to contact coordinators. I requested to
> > create a
> > team for my language and there is no answer. And this for
> a very
> > long
> > time. I am confused and do not know what to do.
> >
> >
> > Hi Emmanuel,
> >
> > We'll need some more information to be able to help. In
> particular:
> >
> > * What's your language and where is the request you filed
> to create
> > a team?
> > * Did you follow the steps on
> >
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/__Translations/KnowledgeBase/__StartingTeam
> >
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/KnowledgeBase/StartingTeam>,
> > as pointed to in the Launchpad page?
> >
> > Regards,
> > David.
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > =============================
> > Emmanuel Habumuremyi
> > Boulevard de l'Umuganda
> > P.O. Box 6525 Kigali
> > Tel.: +250 788487899 <tel:%2B250%20788487899>
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> <http://mc/compose?to=emmahab2008@gmail.com>
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> <http://mc/compose?to=emmahab2008@gmail.com>>
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> >
> > URL: http://www.giswatch.org/users/__ehabumuremyi
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> >
> > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Joshua Hoover
> > <joshua.hoover at canonical.com
> <http://mc/compose?to=joshua.hoover@canonical.com>
> > <mailto:joshua.hoover at canonical.com
> <http://mc/compose?to=joshua.hoover@canonical.com>>
> > <mailto:joshua.hoover at __canonical.com
> <http://mc/compose?to=joshua.hoover@__canonical.com>
> > <mailto:joshua.hoover at canonical.com
> <http://mc/compose?to=joshua.hoover@canonical.com>>>> wrote:
> >
> > On 03/05/2012 09:11 AM, Joshua Hoover wrote:
> > > I wanted to make sure both the translators and docs
> lists were
> > aware of
> > > two more UI and string changes we need to make in the
> > ubuntu-sso-client
> > > and ubuntuone-installer packages. The following changes
> need to
> > > be made in order to be consistent across platforms and
> provide a
> > unified
> > > experience with Ubuntu One:
> > >
> > > * http://pad.lv/937905 - New Ubuntu One installer splash
> > screen with
> > > updated strings and images.
> >
> > Apologies. This should be http://pad.lv/944982
> >
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