Hello Jean-Philippe,
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <jpmengual@debian.org
<mailto:jpmengual@debian.org>> schrieb am Fr., 14. Feb. 2020, 00:02:
Hi,
Le 11/02/2020 à 02:48, Mario Blättermann a écrit :
> Hello Jean-Philippe,
>
> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <jpmengual@debian.org
<mailto:jpmengual@debian.org>
> <mailto:jpmengual@debian.org <mailto:jpmengual@debian.org>>>
schrieb am Di., 11. Feb. 2020, 01:15:
>
> Hi,
>
> Great news, congrats! I am happy to see this package alive.
>
> Who can push in the fr subdir of the tree? Can we add people
manually,
> even if not DDs? Some of the most important French
translators are not
> DDs, but would make sense they can push the translations to fr.
>
>
> No problem, people without a DD account can simply create a guest
> developer account at [1] and then apply for membership at [2]. All
> project members registered as "maintainer" (you too) are then
allowed to
> accept the new translators.
Ok perfect, the relevant persons were added.
Are you sure you did it right...? I don't see any new members in
manpages-l10n.
Best Regards,
Mario
>
> But note: Never commit anything outside of your own directory
(po/fr/ in
> your case) without discussing the change with us, unless our scripts
> change something in templates/ or wherever else. Another
exception are
> the localized files in public/ (which feed the status pages), if you
> found some wrong translation there.
ok no problem, I will follow what the French team will say from their
experience and in case of doubt, will ask here
Sincerely
>
> [1] https://signup.salsa.debian.org/
<https://signup.salsa.debian.org/> <https://signup.salsa.debian.org/
<https://signup.salsa.debian.org/>>
> [2] https://salsa.debian.org/manpages-l10n-team/manpages-l10n
<https://salsa.debian.org/manpages-l10n-team/manpages-l10n>
> <https://salsa.debian.org/manpages-l10n-team/manpages-l10n
<https://salsa.debian.org/manpages-l10n-team/manpages-l10n>>
>
> Best Regards,
> Mario
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
>
> Le 10/02/2020 à 10:10, Mario Blättermann a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > the manpages-l10n project is now almost ready for a
release. The new
> > version 4.0 is scheduled for march 1, 2020. All commits
prior to this
> > date will be included in the tarball.
> >
> > This means, you should now complete all the work you are
already
> > started with. In the meantime, we will update the translation
> > templates and the existing *.po files as usual. Due to
some version
> > changes in our supported packages, such updates can happen
more often
> > than expected. For example, the original »manpages«
package has been
> > recently updated to v5.05. Once the distribution packages
have been
> > arrived, we will do an extra update. Please always work on
the latest
> > *.po files from the Git repository, sorry for the
inconvenience.
> > Because we support lots of distribution packages whose
updates we
> > can't influence, we are unable to declare a »string
freeze« in common
> > sense.
> >
> > In case of the *.po file you are working on is older than
the latest
> > template from the Git repository, you can easily update it
as follows
> > (regardless of it's really older):
> >
> > Copy your *.po file to the right place in your local copy
of the Git
> > repo. Committing is not needed for the time being.
> >
> > Run the following script in the po/ directory of your
language:
> >
> > ./update-po.sh relative/path/to/your/po/file
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > ./update-po.sh man1/chroot.1.po
> >
> > The script merges your *.po file with both the latest
template (*.pot
> > file) and the compendium files (common/*.po). Besides that, it
> removes
> > unused gettext messages at the end of the file and deletes
old msgid
> > comments (starting with #|), as long as the appropriate
gettext
> > message is no longer marked as »fuzzy«.
> >
> > Happy translating!
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Mario
> >
>