Translation project

[Josep Puigdemont]

Hi,

I've been contributing to Fedora Project for quite a long time now, as a
translator. Recently I've been wondering if, at some point, the Fedora
Translation Project has been merged with the Documentation Project.
I'm asking because I want to know if I should request to be added to the
cvsdocs group or not, and if I am actually elligable to be in it. Also
if I should send another introduction (I already did back in... uh 2003
I think ;-)

Thanks!

/Josep

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 11:49 +0100, Josep Puigdemont wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  I've been contributing to Fedora Project for quite a long time now, as a
>  translator. Recently I've been wondering if, at some point, the Fedora
>  Translation Project has been merged with the Documentation Project.
>  I'm asking because I want to know if I should request to be added to the
>  cvsdocs group or not, and if I am actually elligable to be in it. Also
>  if I should send another introduction (I already did back in... uh 2003
>  I think ;-)
>  
>  Thanks! 
The Fedora Translation (L10N) and Documentation projects have *not* been
merged.  But we are trying to work more closely with them.  That's a
longer discussion than you need in this thread, though! :-)

Translators are *definitely* eligible for cvsdocs membership.  As for a
self-introduction, I only found this:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2003-November/msg00156.html

I heard Karsten making some insightful noise the other day about our
lackluster model for CVS sponsorship.  We haven't really seen any
benefits from the idea, and it may be time to reconsider.

That may not really affect you, Josep, other than that you will want to
go ahead and do a "genuine" self-introduction¹ (just to fulfill the
project requirements), and then we can get you access.  If you're
comfortable with CVS, you will have no problem at all translating
directly from our files.  You will probably want to be subscribed to the
"fedora-docs-commits" mailing list so that you know when guides you care
about are updated.

= = = 
¹ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/SelfIntroduction 

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[Josep Puigdemont]

Hi,

thanks for the answer:

El dg 18 de 02 del 2007 a les 10:34 -0500, en/na Paul W. Frields va
escriure:
>  On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 11:49 +0100, Josep Puigdemont wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > I've been contributing to Fedora Project for quite a long time now, as a
>  > translator. Recently I've been wondering if, at some point, the Fedora
>  > Translation Project has been merged with the Documentation Project.
>  > I'm asking because I want to know if I should request to be added to the
>  > cvsdocs group or not, and if I am actually elligable to be in it. Also
>  > if I should send another introduction (I already did back in... uh 2003
>  > I think ;-)
>  > 
>  > Thanks!
>  
>  The Fedora Translation (L10N) and Documentation projects have *not* been
>  merged.  But we are trying to work more closely with them.  That's a
>  longer discussion than you need in this thread, though! :-) 
I was asking because the fedoraproject.org wiki link for "translation"
points to the documentation project, but I see now that it refers to
"documentation" and "websites".

>  
>  Translators are *definitely* eligible for cvsdocs membership.  As for a
>  self-introduction, I only found this:
>  
>  http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2003-November/msg00156.html 
I sent it to the translation mailing list:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2003-December/msg00000....
It seems to be the first message to that list too ;-)
If I recall it correctly, there was another list called i18n before, but
we switched to this one at some point.

Anyway, I'll send a better self introduction, because that one doesn't
have most of the required bits.

>  
>  I heard Karsten making some insightful noise the other day about our
>  lackluster model for CVS sponsorship.  We haven't really seen any
>  benefits from the idea, and it may be time to reconsider.
>  
>  That may not really affect you, Josep, other than that you will want to
>  go ahead and do a "genuine" self-introduction¹ (just to fulfill the
>  project requirements), and then we can get you access.  If you're
>  comfortable with CVS, you will have no problem at all translating
>  directly from our files.  You will probably want to be subscribed to the
>  "fedora-docs-commits" mailing list so that you know when guides you care
>  about are updated. 
I already have a CVS account for sending translations (I presume it
won't be the same?), and also an account in the account system.

>  
>  = = = 
>  ¹ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/SelfIntroduction 
>   
Thanks a lot, I'll send a self introduction shortly.

/josep

[Dimitris Glezos]

O/H Josep Puigdemont έγραψε:
>  I already have a CVS account for sending translations (I presume it
>  won't be the same?), and also an account in the account system. 
Unfortunately, no, they are not the same.

The one for L10N is on RH servers and the other one (Docs and everything else)
is on Fedora ones. With the first one you can submit translations and with the
second, you are given access in different areas (eg. `cvsdocs`).

-d


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