Release announcement translation
Rahul
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Aug 13 17:09:21 UTC 2006
Thomas w. Cranston wrote:
> Rahul wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Release announcements for new releases are a major piece of
>> information that hasnt been translated and announced in sync unlike
>> the release notes. Since this adds a lot of visibility to the L10N
>> efforts, I would like to see us do that from the Fedora Core 6 release
>> onwards.
>>
>> I have talked to Paul.W.Frields on IRC and there are a few things we
>> need to take care of.
>>
>> * Release announcements are usually in a style which doesnt lend
>> itself well to translation and changing into a more formal style would
>> make it rather dull. We can workaround that by doing a alternative
>> formal style announcement that we translate leaving the current
>> community style announcement untranslated but linking them together. I
>> had written a release summary for Fedora Core 5 and now a draft one
>> for Fedora Core 6 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC6ReleaseSummary)
>> which might serve this purpose.
>>
>> * After the test3 release we need to decide the location of the final
>> Fedora Core 6 release notes and link to it from the above release
>> summary, convert it into DocBook XML format, import into CVS and make
>> it available for translation.
>>
>> I am copying Alam and Jesse Keating for coordinating the translation
>> efforts and making sure that the release summary is linked from the
>> community announcement. We need to get the ball rolling now.
>>
>> Rahul
>>
>>
>>
> Hi
>
> Could you please identify youself better? The following are the subject
> and sender:
> Rahul
> Release announcement translation
Ok. I am Rahul Sundaram. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram
for more information about me.
>
> I have no quick way of knowing if this is spam or somthing from or
> relating to the Fedora documents project, so it just looks like spam to
> me, since I am not familiar with your name.
I have been here for a few years now. I would expect anyone familiar
with the project to know me.
>
> Spammers are beginning to craft subject lins that look like they might
> relate to a forum, etc.
> In this case I used a little intuition, but my esp is running a little
> thin.
>
> This goes out to everyone out there, and not just you Rahul.
Googling the key words up is a good thing to try when you are not sure.
Rahul
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