Hello Alexis, Am Do., 2. Juli 2020 um 20:58 Uhr schrieb Helge Kreutzmann <deb...@helgefjell.de>: > > Hello Alexis, > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 10:30:37PM +0200, Alexis wrote: > > > El 2020-06-27 05:51, Helge Kreutzmann escribió: > > > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 09:54:19PM +0200, Mario Blättermann wrote: > > > > Am Fr., 26. Juni 2020 um 11:46 Uhr schrieb Alexis <ale...@xt3.it>: I > > > > just checked the disappearance of manpages-es and searching I found > > > > (and read) your email > > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-spanish/2020/06/msg00004.html > > > > and https://salsa.debian.org/manpages-l10n-team/manpages-l10n > > > > > > > > I have little personal time but I can't let manpages-es go away. > > > > Please tell me how I can help. I am a native Spanish speaker, and I > > > > read and write English acceptably well (I think). Please, to > > > > estimate the workload, indicate the number of people who have shown > > > > interest in helping with manpages-es. > > > > > > > Totally, there are 660 plain Groff/Mdoc manpages to import into .po > > > > files; this will take a while anyway. And the use of Po4a makes sure > > > > that a translation never gets outdated: if it doesn't reach the > > > > threshold of 80% translated, the translated man page doesn't get > > > > built. And a translation which falls under this threshold (due to some > > > > upstream updates in the meantime) also doesn't get built anymore. In > > > > general, it is better to have a handful of man pages instead of > > > > hundreds of outdated stuff. > > > > > > I want to add that on the other hand the files remain in the > > > repository (once imported) and keep being updated. So if one page falls > > > below 80% it's not lost: You can easily see what updates are needed > > > and apply them and then the page man page is being built again. > > > > > > So even older translations (with quite a few outdated strings) might > > > be brought back into shape (and over 80%) rather quickly. > > > > > > > po/es/common/min-100-occurences.po > > > > > > > > This is part of the compendium. It contains gettext messages which > > > > appear more than 100 times in our .po file collection. I've filled it > > > > with the content of the translation of help2man (maintained at GNU > > > > Translation Project) and with some recently imported translations (see > > > > below). And finally, some of the gettext messages are translated using > > > > Google Translate ;) > > > > > > And this is one of the really nice features: You only need to > > > translate common strings once. They go into our compendium and are > > > added back into each individual man page. This eases the work > > > significantly. So whenever you finished a man page (and possibly had > > > it reviewed) add it to the compendium and you will see that (depending > > > on the upstream, of course) quite a few other man pages will get more > > > translated strings (i.e. those common to several man pages). > > > > > > Also things like dates and boilerplate texts are done autoamtically, > > > taking away further burden. > > > > > > Still, in the beginning it is a challenge. I suggest that you devise > > > priorities (which man pages are most important) and start working on > > > them, maybe the intro pages are a good idea. > > > > I understand that as I proceed with the common or generic translation files > > (current common/* and man[1-8]), > > https://salsa.debian.org/manpages-l10n-team/manpages-l10n/-/tree/master/po/es > > will be populated by new, more specific files? > > Mario is currently our importer. He is still busy with importing > pt_BR, but you might want to check with him if/when he can handle > (some) spanish pages. > > If you want, you can of course translate some strings in common/min-*, > but they will only appear if you later the corresponding man pages > appear, so it does not have a short tearm result. > > I would suggest that you identify the man page(s) you think are most > useful or are most interesting to you and ask Mario to prepare the po > files for you, so that you can get going. > I'm already finished with importing the man pages in section 8. But if you prefer to start with any other man page(s), feel free to ask, I will then import those next.
Best Regards, Mario
