[smc-discuss] Re: [gnome] Gnome 2.24 Malayalam

[Manu S Madhav]

Suggested addon:

The reviewed filenames should be kept on wiki, with reviewer name, and date
of reviewal. That way, later on, ppl can know when and how many times a file
has been reviewed.

2008/7/24 Ani Peter <peter.ani at gmail.com>:

>
> Here goes my idea for the review squad:
>
> 1. Review squad can also follow the system of using a  table similar to
> what we maintain for the translators.
> 2. Referring to that table  pick up a 100% completed file from the
> status page (as gnome status page is properly maintained, there will not
> be any issue). Mention the name of the reviewer and the file that was
> taken in the wiki.
> 3. Once reviewed thoroughly send it to the list for committing and make
> changes in wiki accordingly.
> 4. Now the reviewer can go ahead choosing another 100% completed file
> which has no owners and go on.
>
> I think this review squad can now take care of one round of such a
> review. of po files in the editor itself.  The reviewers can refer the
> glossary so that we have a standardized form of translations
>
> We can have another review of the applications on the screen after the
> release and this review can be considered as the second phase.
>
> What do all think??
>
> Best regards
> Ani
>
>
>
>
>
> Manilal K M wrote:
> > 2008/7/23 Ani Peter <peter.ani at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Glad Hari and Santhosh has already done the flag off for Gnome 2.24
> >> Malayalam Translation.
> >>
> >> So from today on we will be concentrating on Gnome 2.24 Translation. The
> >> deadline for Gnome 2.24 will be September first week. For Gnome, a
> >> language to be fully supported, we need to have Gnome UI translations at
> >> http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/ml/gnome-2-24 to be 80%. Currently, our
> >> status is 75%.
> >>
> >> Our procedures will be exactly same like we followed for KDE.
> >>
> >> 1. Pick up the file you want from gnome status page :
> >> http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/ml/gnome-2-24 after cross checking with
> >> http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/GNOME/മലയാളം.
> >> 2. Make sure you enter your name and file name in the wiki
> >> 3. Save the pot files from the gnome status page as .po files and start
> >> working on them using any text editors or po editors like
> >> kbabel/gedit/poedit(new version)/kwrite
> >> 4. Send the translated file to the list and edit wiki accordingly.
> >>
> >> As Santhosh said, our target must be 100% translation for this release,
> >> but concentrating more on the quality of translations. Hence I think for
> >> Gnome we need to have two teams/squad - one for review and another for
> >> translation. The review team may take up a completed file from
> >> http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/ml/gnome-2-24
> >>
> >> I would recommend the following people for the Review Squad. - Sasi Sir,
> >> Anil, Manilal, Santhosh, Shiju, Anivar, Praveen, Ani. I would be really
> >> glad to have more number of experienced persons for this team. We can
> >> maintain a table on the wiki: http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/GNOME/മലയാളം
> for
> >> the files taken for review. What do you all think??
> >>
> >> The translation squad now has following members: Manu, Hari, Pratheesh,
> >> Afsal, Sujith, Smitha, Sushma, Ragsagar, Chandrettan, Anoop, Anoopan,
> >> Syam, Sankaranarayanan, Shiju, Remya, Santhosh, Praveen, Ani. I kindly
> >> request more people to join the squad to make this a success.
> >>
> >> So guys, please start your translation work. Go ahead, choose and file
> >> and get set go.......
> >>
> >> Please send valuable suggestions/comments for the review procedure that
> >> I have mentioned above.
> >>
> >> Thanking you
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >> Ani
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > This make sense. However, it may be nice if the reviewer name is also
> > added in the wiki. A file can be reviewed any number of times to
> > enhance the quality. But I'm not sure at what point a file can be
> > committed.
> >
> >
>
>
> >
>


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Manu S Madhav
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