[Fwd: Translations: String freezes, CVS converging, Packaging]

[A S Alam]

On Wednesday 07 Mar 2007 10:44:48 pm Samuel Bizien wrote:
> Le mardi 06 mars 2007 à 22:24 +0000, Dimitris Glezos a écrit :
> > ## Packaging translations
> >
> > One final plan (and probably the one that needs most discussion) is about
> > changing the way we package translations. Right now PO files live inside
> > the application and are packaged there (GNOME-style). The plan is to move
> > the PO files in to their own directory and distinct package [4]
> > (KDE-style langpacks).
> >
> >   [4]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Projects/TranslationsPackage
> >
> > Cons: L10n team should maintain a package (or many) and packages should
> > be altered to accomodate the different locations of PO files.
> >
> > Pros (many): increased modularity and maintenance (L10n repackages at
> > will). App packages will be smaller in size -- we could provide
> > one langpack or different ones per language.
> >
> >
> > Comments, suggestions?
>
> Great !
>
> This idea will be _reallly_ useful, for those (like me) who always
> delete all translation files that are not needed for my system (to fit
> the system to a liveCD, for example).
> But, when you say "L10n team should maintain a package", who will do
> it ? Translators, for each language ?
>
>
2 options
may be single Maintainer for all translation
or
one Maintainer for each package, 
but it far away to decide this, first whether this accepected or not:)


Thanks

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