Lost in translation (Ubuntu and Launchpad translations)

[Ankitkumar Rameshchandra Patel]

Valent Turkovic wrote:
> Hi,
> I have came a cross an issue that I didn't see discussed in this
> mailing list, but if there was such a discussion before please point
> me to it.
>
> First I have noticed that in previous and latest Ubuntu release that
> Gnome translation is much better that I see in Fedora 8 and 9. I
> wondered why and contacted croatian gnome translation team. The reason
> is that they use Ubuntu Launchpad to do the translations and so all
> translation are not automatically pushed to upstream gnome.
>
> I feel that this is broken by design. There are options to export
> translations from Lauchpad and we are working on getting them to
> upstream Gnome right now. I can only guess but I suspect that our
> translation team is not the only one caught in this "lost in
> translation" Lauchpad trap. There are probably lots of translation
> teams around the world using launchpad to do their translations.
>
> So my questions is - has there been any talk with Ubuntu developers
> and translators regarding this? Do you think this is an issue? Why?
>
> How is translation in Fedora handling translation and upstream?
>
> Thank you for your time,
> Valent, croatian Fedora Ambassador.
>
>   
Hi Valent,

First of all, we don't provide the facility to submit upstream Gnome 
translations through our latest translation system, called Transifex. 
So, we don't have any conflict with upstream Gnome translation team as 
of now.

Regarding Ubuntu Lauchpad, it doesn't submit the translations to 
upstream Gnome as of now I think. As per the plans you put in your 
e-mail, if Ubuntu Lanuchpad system is going to export translations from 
Launchpad and submit them into Gnome upstream, then there will be 
definitely huge conflict I can see, because I contribute to Gnome 
translations and I really don't know who contributes through Launchpad. 
I guess, you you might want to discuss it with Gnome upstream 
translators too...

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Regards,
Ankit Patel
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