-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Clytie Siddall wrote: > > On 24/09/2006, at 5:25 AM, Toby Smithe wrote: > >> Wouter Bolsterlee wrote: >>> 2006-09-23 klockan 21:09 skrev Toby Smithe: >>>> I do work on the Ubuntu en_GB translation, as some of you may know. I >>>> agree it is hard to merge upstream translation changes, but apart from >>>> that, Rosetta is a superb interface. Inexperienced volunteer changes >>>> are >>>> not committed, as approval into a team is required. >>> >>> The main problem with the Dutch (nl) translation has been solved some >>> time >>> ago: there where *way* to many people in the team contributing crap >>> translations. Now that every member of the team has been removed and >>> only >>> added back after approval by the coordinator, this is not much of a >> problem >>> anymore :) >> >> Well, I'm sorry to say this but that was rather the fault of the >> coordinator, as the team should have started out as being approval-only >> membership from the beginning. However, I still completely understand >> your feelings. > > I was a bit distressed today to be told that at Software Freedom Day in > Hà N?i on the 16th, Ubuntu CDs were distributed "which Ubuntu had > localized in Vietnamese". I know most, if not all translations on that > disk were from my team (upstream work here, at KDE, Debian and in > single-program projects like Mailman, Fonforge, Inkscape etc.) It does > indeed feel unfair to see Ubuntu taking credit for our work. I have seen > our translator names removed from PO files in Ubuntu, and in general, > I'm unhappy about this situation.
I agree. This is very wrong. The names should be kept in PO files, and the CDs and applications should give credit where credit is due. I will definitely point this out on ubuntu-devel. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFFirJv7fgPJvITk4RAkU+AJ0Zu/J56qkEjg8cIHhdsSqs/zRpsQCgo49N BVPd6XdSuvnO+IU+QiIlr0E= =gsSI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
