[Xfce-i18n] need to start new team (Amharic)

[William Koch]

Hi, I have joined XFCE PT_BR translation team a few days ago, I am making
some mistakes too, I think a lot before sending something here, and then
someone reply saying that it is wrong and should do it another way. What I
know by now is that the only way to learn things here is trying. I searched
a lot in xfce wikis, the Wikia one, the i18n too, but there are lots of
things that I don't know how to do and I haven't found the answers yet.

So, I think you should not take things personally here, everybody is working
for free, in a free/open project with the only objective to help the project
and the people who use XFCE. You are helping XFCE and the people that speak
your language, so what if you make a few mistakes. lol

William

2007/6/4, tegegne tefera <tefera.tegegne at gmail.com>:
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>
>
> On 6/4/07, Stephan Arts < stephan at xfce.org > wrote:
> >
> > On 6/4/07, tegegne tefera <tefera.tegegne at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I will try if it is not too big for one email. I was also thinking
> > that it
> > > would create more problem since the file name is the same for all
> > files.
> > > am.po
> > > Please confirm that this would not be an issue.
> > >
> > > The files that i sent are not finished yet. I created the po files
> > > translated few strings from each file as starter and sent it. Once
> > this
> > > files are commited I (or some body else) will start working on them
> > > earnestly.
> > >
> > > Question
> > > Do this files get updated or are they frozen? I checkedout from 4.2tree.
> > > will 4.2 will remain the same for ever??
> > > How is the migration to 4.4 for exmple?
> > >
> > >
> > > On 6/4/07, Stephan Arts < stephan at xfce.org > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 6/4/07, tegegne tefera < tefera.tegegne at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > > > I will be glad to assist her on any way I can. And if she can help
> > on
> > > the
> > > > > trasnlation or testing that would great too. We need every hand
> > and eye
> > > to
> > > > > get this thing on the plate.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 6/4/07, Samuel Verstraete < samuel.verstraete at gmail.com >
> > wrote:
> > > > > > Great!
> > > > > > My college will appreciate your work very much :) (she is from
> > ethopia
> > > > > > and would love to see an amharic translation so she can keep
> > > > > > practising her amharic... a few years of .be hasn't been very
> > > > > > beneficial for it...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > cheers,
> > > > > > S.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 20:32:28 +0200
> > > > > > "tegegne tefera" < tefera.tegegne at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > I need to start new language team (Amharic). I have registered
> > the
> > > > > > > language at
> > > > > http://i18n.xfce.org/wiki/language_maintainers and
> > > > > > > registered myself as translator too.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I tried to checkout the translatable files as described on the
> > wiki
> > > > > > > page but i get the fallowing error.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/xfce/modules/4.2-po'
> > > > > > > svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/xfce/modules/4.2-po': 405 Method Not
> > Allowed
> > > (
> > > > > > > http://svn.
> > > > > > > foo-projects.org )
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Any help is appreciated.
> > > > > > > What is the procedure for getting commit access fro the
> > translated
> > > > > > > files??
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Also if there is any one who has started or thinking of
> > starting an
> > > > > > > Amharic translation please contact me.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > cheers
> > > > > > > tegegne
> > > >
> > > > Could you please send all those translations at once?!
> > > > This would really simplify the work of the committers.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> >
> > Bottom-posting (as i am doing now, replying below the original
> > message) is preferred on the xfce mailing-lists.
> >
> > Send the files in an archive, or send in a complete patch.
> >
> > 4.2 is frozen... please checkout 4.4 and start translating there.
> > after that you can continue with the trunk of other projects like
> > thunar and the goodies.
> >
> > For help with svn and i18n, check the howto's on i18n.xfce.org
> >
> > Thank you, and i hope this helps :-)
> >
> > Stephan
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> >
>
>
> I am squirming with shame for not being creative. I hope you all will
> forgive and bear my onslought once more. On my defence I am just a lowly
> translator whos leaving has not much to do with high end computing. (not
> very convincing excuse I know!!!! :-))
>
> Tried to checkout 4.4 with the fallowing command and result. I got a
> directory "4.4-po" with some more directories but no po files or
> po-directories in it.
>
> $ svn checkout http://svn.xfce.org/svn/xfce/modules/4.4-po
>
> Fetching external item into ' 4.4-po/libexo/po'
> svn: URL ' http://svn.xfce.org/svn/xfce/libexo/branches/xfce_4_4/po '
> refers to a
> file, not a directory
>
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