>From what I have seen of the application, I think his goals and intentions
are different. I'm familiar with gtranslator and I know it well enough that
I know some of what's wrong and some of how to fix it. I don't have a clear
idea of the direction of valacat and what it will be when the developer
considers it to be "done". For now, I can take gtranslator in the direction
I would like to see it move in. It's basically a matter of personal
preferences and having a clear idea of how to move forward with gtranslator.


Seán


On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Gil Forcada <gforc...@gnome.org> wrote:

> El ds 31 de 08 de 2013 a les 03:12 -0600, en/na Sean Burke va escriure:
> > Hello,
>
> Hi!
>
> >
> >     I've spoken with Ignacio Casal Quinteiro and we've agreed that I
> > will take over maintainership of gtranslator. This summer, a student
> > is working on a GSoC project to write an alternative to gtranslator,
> > but while it's in the early stages, I'm hoping to breathe new life
> > into gtranslator and make it a truly useful translation tool.
>
> Well, is useful to me right now, but improvements are always welcome!
>
> (.. cut to save some bits...)
> >
> >     I would like to hear from you about my above proposals and also
> > about any other major issues you would like to see addressed.
>
> Well, as you ask:
>
> Please don't get me wrong, we are talking about Free Software projects,
> so you are completely free to do whatever you want with the code and
> your time, and by no means I want to change you decision, just to get an
> idea of the reason...
>
> If there's a GSoC already making a better Gtranslator, why oh why,
> should you continue to work on the old one? Why not try to help the GSoC
> student? He's going to work on a plugin system, why not help him
> architect it so that all the changes you think are needed on the old
> Gtranslator are already on the new one?
>
> Cheers and happy coding in either Gtranslator version you happen to
> choose to hack on!
> Gil!
>
> >
> > Seán de Búrca
> >
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