From kde-i18n-doc  Sun May 28 00:32:15 2006
From: Jonathan Riddell <jriddell () ubuntu ! com>
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 00:32:15 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: Rosetta for Kubuntu Dapper and KDE
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On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 05:32:07AM +0900, Yukiko Bando wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> I'm not the one who asked the question, but what if the translator is a 
> Kubuntu user and working for the KDE team?  He or she should expect his 
> or her translation to be included in the next release but might see 
> someone else's instead.  Or is it officially announced that Kubuntu users 
> should not work for the KDE translation team?             

Personally I'd encourage them to work with the KDE translation team,
but many people will prefer the web interface offered by Rosetta.

> > > 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.
> 
> When it comes to translation, I'd say it is a waste of human resources 
> since the original messages to translate are the same.  What if every 
> major distribution offers the same kind of tool?

Linspire does, other distributions do it inhouse, the difference is
that with Ubuntu the results can be easily extracted.

>  I don't think it is an 
> efficient way that ten translators work for ten different distributions 
> without communicating with each other.  

Sounds like a good idea to contact your equivalent ubuntu translation
team and ask them to ping you if there's significant KDE translations
in your language.

 https://launchpad.net/rosetta/groups/ubuntu-translators

> I'd like to suggest that you limit the use of Rosetta to distribution 
> specific applications and encourage your translators to join the KDE team 
> for KDE translation. 

If a person is a KDE fan I do but if their main interest is having
all of the Ubuntu distros translated and they don't want to care
about 50 upstreams, which is a large number of contributors, they will use Rosetta. 

> > > 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.
> 
> Will changes made in KDE SVN overwrite those in Rosetta then?  How do you 
> resolve conflicts?

You'd need to ask the Rosetta developers, carlos and jordi on
freenode.

Jonathan