From kde-i18n-doc Thu Aug 28 20:56:40 2008 From: "Ihar Hrachyshka" Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:56:40 +0000 To: kde-i18n-doc Subject: Re: Belarusian Latin translation project for KDE4 Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-i18n-doc&m=121995704727694 This mail was falsely sent to Albert so resending to the ML. On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: >> A Divendres 22 Agost 2008, Ihar Hrachyshka va escriure: >>> Hello guys! >> >> Hi >> >>> I'm glad to inform you about the start of the new l10n effort for >>> KDE4: Belarusian language in its Latin script variant (be@latin glibc >>> locale). Though there is already Belarusian team I think that >>> organisationally it would be better to register a separate team for >>> Belarusian Latin because in Belarusian l10n there are more >>> differencies in two i18n communities - Cyrillic and Latin - then in >>> f.e. Serbian language where Latin translations are prepared with the >>> help of programmatic script convertor. There are large differencies in >>> terminology, morphological forms etc. >>> >>> I think that current Belarusian KDE coordinator and contributors will >>> support such way of resolving the issue (I added their addresses into >>> CC). >> >> Any comment from current Belarusian KDE people? > > The thing is that the current Belarusian KDE coordinator is for some > reason not online for long terms. Anyway, the main contributor of the > Belarusian KDE translation - Darafei Pralaskouski - is reading the > list and, I think, will reply in a day or two. He already gave his > support for the decision in our private talks. > Darafei, please show us your opinion on the subject :) > >> >>> >>> That's why I ask to approve the new effort and make me its first >>> coordinator. >>> >>> ----- >>> A little about me: I'm a current GNOME Belarusian (in both scripts) >>> l10n coordinator, one of two major GNOME be@latin contributors, former >>> Belarusian Cyrillic coordinator, participant of other free software >>> projects (as localizer and developer too). I already have l10n SVN >>> account (hrachyshka)... So I have enough knowledge and experience to >>> coordinate the new KDE sub-project. >>> ----- >> >> Unless someone from the current Belarusian KDE people strongly disagree, you >> must follow "normal" rules for a team to be created, that is, translate >> kdelibs to 90% or more and send it to me. I'll proceed with team creation >> from there. > > I'm already doing the work. First files will be ready for commit in a > week or two. > >> >> Albert >> >>> >>> If you have some questions feel free to ask me through this ML or my >>> jabber (ihar.hrachyshka@jabber.cz). >>> >>> Thank you for your time and efforts, >>> Best regards, >>> Ihar Hrachyshka. >> >> >> >