[Freeipa-devel] SSSD Translation Process

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 07/13/2009 05:15 PM, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:37:52AM -0400, John Dennis wrote:
> 
>> The Fedora localization project (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N)  
>> has specific procedures for how translators interact with the SCM of the  
>> project they are providing translations for. My suggestion would be to  
>> depend on the Fedora translators and to follow their procedures.
> 
> So, let's talk about L10n.
> 
> Fortunately, the means and methods are much similar to what Red Hat
> has done all along.  A key piece is Transifex, which is a (web)
> service that sits between your SCM and a translation community.
> Fedora's instance is here:
> 
> https://translate.fedoraproject.org/
> 
> In general, the translators work against the schedule set by the
> developers, such as the Fedora Linux or GNOME release schedules.  This
> includes many individual software packages that also release with
> Fedora, such as the system-config-* set of tools.  Those developers
> release to the same drumbeat as Fedora overall, so can coordinate in
> unison with translators.
> 
> In my experience, what translators do to a schedule is insert
> additional milestone activites.  In particular, string freeze that is
> really frozen and not slushy.  For example, in Fedora Docs we've
> preferred to be late with our freeze than to risk breaking it later.
> 
> Steve, you said in IRC this morning that you'd like to coordinate the
> FreeIPA side.  How about if we meet on #fedora-l10n and bend the ears
> of a few people there (diegobz, glezoz, vpv, et al)?  Turn my loose
> assurances in to actual process, etc.  We can hit their mailing list
> and set a specific time, if it helps; folks there are in many
> timezones (South America, Greece India, Australia, etc.)  Alternately,
> if you want to join fedora-trans-list, we can discuss async.
> 

Sure, in terms of a rough estimate, how about we hit up #fedora-l10n
sometime between 1p.m. and 4p.m. EDT (1500-1800 UTC) today (July 14th)?

We can hammer out some of the details and then we'll post back to this
list (and a wiki page) about our plans.

> cheers - Karsten
> 
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