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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Importing existing translations
From:       Aurélien Gâteau <agateau () kde ! org>
Date:       2013-01-08 14:36:42
Message-ID: kchato$gdd$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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Luigi Toscano wrote:
>> > I would suggest to tell the translators of that program to contact (and
>> > join) the translation team for their language if they are not yet part
>> > of it. Different teams have different rules to handle ownership for
>> > translations, and not all the projects outside KDE infrastructure are
>> > translated by us.
>> 
>> I am not sure I get it: in this case, I am moving Colibri to KDE
>> infrastructure, so it would not be "outside" anymore.
> 
> When a project is outside KDE infrastructure it can happen that it's
> translated by translators outside our teams. In this case, for example, I
> don't recognize the name of the Italian translator. When the translation
> is imported into our infrastructure, every team applies its rules for
> translating it and it can happen that the translation is automatically
> assigned to another (internal) translator. When something like this
> happened in the past, we (Italian translator) tried to contact the
> original translator asking him to join the team and continue the
> translation (or also translate other stuff). I'm pretty sure it happened
> something similar for other teams.
> 
> What I tried to say is that, if you ask directly the existing colibri
> translator to join the respective translation team, it would make our life
> a bit easier :)

Oh, right. Indeed I plan to contact the translators. But is it OK to commit 
the existing translations to KDE repository, regardless of whether their 
authors are or are willing to become KDE translators?

Aurélien

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