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

Mon Jun 4 22:34:42 CEST 2007

first of all you have to know how to do patches.

The documentation is pretty clear about what to send to the list.
http://i18n.xfce.org/
http://i18n.xfce.org/wiki/svn_howto

If you need some advices on svn issues you can direct contact me in
portguese.

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On 6/4/07, William Koch < wkromani at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 >:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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