Re: Uploaded ja-trans 0.3 (source all) to jp

[Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>]

At Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:59:30 -0400,
Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> wrote:

> >> > Description: 
> >> >  ja-trans   - Japanese gettext message files
> >> 
> >> What exactly is this package?  If it's just PO files or the like,
> >> should that go upstream to the translation project
> >> <URL:http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard/po/HTML/> ?
> 
> >Yes, this is just MO files for Japanese. This is a Japanese variant of 
> >zh-trans.  I agree this should go upstream and I'll request translators
> >of this PO files to send to the translation project, however, it takes 
> >too much time to merge in actual upstream, so I'd like to have 
> >ja-trans package in potato until all PO files merge into upstream.
> 
> I understand.  My intention is that we take every effort to ensure
> that Debian is working to not just improve the situation for Debian
> users, but to improve the situation for all free software users.

I agree.
 
> Thus, I believe, if you upload the file to the translation project,
> the TP will be able to hopefully use their existing relationships and
> other translated material to the upstream maintainers, and get things
> folded in upstream more quickly.

PO files in ja-trans package are already uploaded to mainly japo@flatout.org,
which is unofficial translation project, because official translation
project (ja@li.org) requires written "copyright disclaimer" and many
people probably can not get it from their employer.
Anyway, some people are now contributing some of these PO files, and
we are inviting more and more people to contribute to do it.

Thanks,
Fumitoshi UKAI