Re: Call for updates - Release Notes

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 16:43 +0000, Miloš Komarčević wrote:
>  On 11/30/06, Dimitris Glezos <dimitris(a)glezos.com&gt; wrote:
>  > O/H Lauri Nurmi έγραψε:
>  > > to, 2006-11-30 kello 04:55 -0600, Robert 'Bob' Jensen kirjoitti:
>  > >> In about 1 week we would like to push a snapshot of the release notes
>  > >> beats on the wiki to translation. If you have a beat on the wiki please
>  > >> try to get any updates completed by Dec 7 23:59 UTC. The snapshot should
>  > >> be going to Translation by Dec 9 23:59 UTC. Translations will be due
>  > >> back 10 days later (Dec 19 23:59 UTC) for packaging and publishing.
>  > >
>  > > If I have translated the parts of release-notes required by the browser
>  > > splash page, but nothing else, will my translation be packaged, and will
>  > > I see the browser splash page in my own language?
>  >
>  > There are some people currently looking into this. Basically, we'll try to
>  > separate the `po` file of the release notes from the other two because it's
>  > significantly  bigger. Unfortunately, it's not a trivial task because it
> affects
>  > packaging, so I can't say if we will be able to do it at this time. If not,
> then
>  > the separation will have to wait for FC7.
>  >
>  > Are there any other translators that would like to translate the messages of
>  > "Browser Start page" and "System -> About Fedora" but
> don't have the
>  > time/resources to translate the Release notes?
>  
>  Yes please, this would be very much appreciated, as I already
>  mentioned on the list once.
>  
>  Serbian translation has had these parts (README, README-BURNING-ISOS,
>  About, homepage etc., everything except the huge RelNotes section)
>  ready for FC6. Unfortunately we just don't have the time and resources
>  to handle the big section in the few days between freeze and release,
>  and it doesn't make sense to work on it in the meantime since it will
>  change considerably. 
Sorry to be late to the thread here.  I am starting with the homepage
and moving these into separate modules.  I'm confident this will work
for an FC-6 update at some point (probably in January 2007), and we will
use that model for release 7 and going forward.

My plan is to modularize the following:

release-notes - only that content from the Beats on the wiki
readme - The standard descriptive README on CD/DVD #1
readme-burning-isos - Helpful information for the mirrors on burning CDs
about - The "About Fedora" menu item
homepage - The browser splash HTML page

With the exception of "release-notes" (which already exists), I need
someone to create these modules in i18n CVS for us to populate with POT
once this work is done.  (I have an account there with write access, but
if some additional ACL is used, please allow me to write to these
modules.)

cc'ing the f-docs-l for informational purposes.

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Call for updates - Release Notes

[Dimitris Glezos]

O/H Paul W. Frields έγραψε:
>  On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 16:43 +0000, Miloš Komarčević wrote:
> > On 11/30/06, Dimitris Glezos <dimitris(a)glezos.com&gt; wrote:
> >> O/H Lauri Nurmi έγραψε:
> >>> to, 2006-11-30 kello 04:55 -0600, Robert 'Bob' Jensen kirjoitti:
> >>>> In about 1 week we would like to push a snapshot of the release notes
> >>>> beats on the wiki to translation. If you have a beat on the wiki please
> >>>> try to get any updates completed by Dec 7 23:59 UTC. The snapshot should
> >>>> be going to Translation by Dec 9 23:59 UTC. Translations will be due
> >>>> back 10 days later (Dec 19 23:59 UTC) for packaging and publishing.
> >>> If I have translated the parts of release-notes required by the browser
> >>> splash page, but nothing else, will my translation be packaged, and will
> >>> I see the browser splash page in my own language?
> >> There are some people currently looking into this. Basically, we'll try to
> >> separate the `po` file of the release notes from the other two because it's
> >> significantly  bigger. Unfortunately, it's not a trivial task because it
> affects
> >> packaging, so I can't say if we will be able to do it at this time. If not,
> then
> >> the separation will have to wait for FC7.
> >>
> >> Are there any other translators that would like to translate the messages of
> >> "Browser Start page" and "System -> About Fedora" but
> don't have the
> >> time/resources to translate the Release notes?
> > Yes please, this would be very much appreciated, as I already
> > mentioned on the list once.
> >
> > Serbian translation has had these parts (README, README-BURNING-ISOS,
> > About, homepage etc., everything except the huge RelNotes section)
> > ready for FC6. Unfortunately we just don't have the time and resources
> > to handle the big section in the few days between freeze and release,
> > and it doesn't make sense to work on it in the meantime since it will
> > change considerably.
>  
>  Sorry to be late to the thread here.  I am starting with the homepage
>  and moving these into separate modules.  I'm confident this will work
>  for an FC-6 update at some point (probably in January 2007), and we will
>  use that model for release 7 and going forward.
>  
>  My plan is to modularize the following:
>  
>  release-notes - only that content from the Beats on the wiki
>  readme - The standard descriptive README on CD/DVD #1
>  readme-burning-isos - Helpful information for the mirrors on burning CDs
>  about - The "About Fedora" menu item
>  homepage - The browser splash HTML page 
Paul,

the separation seems sensible. Thanks for putting effort into this; I'm sure
most of the translators will be happy to hear it.

>  With the exception of "release-notes" (which already
> exists), I need
>  someone to create these modules in i18n CVS for us to populate with POT
>  once this work is done.  (I have an account there with write access, but
>  if some additional ACL is used, please allow me to write to these
>  modules.) 
It would save us a lot of time if some people from the Docs team could have
access to the l10n tools directly, to avoid delays in the future. The less
bottlenecks the better.

-d



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Call for updates - Release Notes

[Bill Nottingham]

Dimitris Glezos (dimitris(a)glezos.com) said: 
>  > My plan is to modularize the following:
>  > 
>  > release-notes - only that content from the Beats on the wiki
>  > readme - The standard descriptive README on CD/DVD #1
>  > readme-burning-isos - Helpful information for the mirrors on burning CDs
>  > about - The "About Fedora" menu item
>  > homepage - The browser splash HTML page 
Added.

Bill