From kde-i18n-doc  Sat May 27 18:00:07 2006
From: Jonathan Riddell <jriddell () ubuntu ! com>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 18:00:07 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: Rosetta for Kubuntu Dapper and KDE
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I wasn't subscribed to the list so I'll answer all points so far in 1
e-mail.

> When will Rosetta be open source?

When Mark says so, probably a few years yet.

> Are the translations done in launchpad.net commited into KDE SVN ?

No, that's why I recommend you to check for translations that would be
useful to export and put back into KDE SVN.

> But, according to a member of the German translation team, some of the 
> team POs were changed in KUbuntu, and apparently without 
> notification.

There was a problem with the German translation where I didn't upload
kde-i18n-de for KDE 3.5.2 until recently.

> How are the KDE teams supposed to know what changes are done in
> Rosetta? I do not want to create an account and check the ubuntu files
> for changes.

At the moment that is the only way.

> What about Rosetta changes the KDE teams do not want to get in?

Don't import them.

> As far as I know none of the german ubuntu translators did contact the
> german KDE team before working on the german translations in unbuntu.

Might be worthwhile contacting them and pointing them to useful
reference documentation.

> How do I explain a KDE translator that his work is already done from
> someone else skipping the team processes?

I'm not sure what this is asking, the Ubuntu translation teams will
have their own processes (being young teams some of them may be less
mature than in KDE).  You can either ignore their work or take it back
as best suits you.

> Don't get me wrong, but at the moment this looks more like a parallel 
> community to me.

It is.  Distributions have always had parallel development communities
than their upstreams.

> Another thing that I'm worried about is that they seem to be working
> on old files.

Yes, the files are from the KDE 3.5.2 release.  Longer term there is
an idea to import into Rosetta from KDE's SVN directly.

Jonathan