Re: DevRef English writing style advice, was: incomprehensible sentence in exim4-config.pot.

2006-05-29 Thread Christian Perrier
> - Be gender neutral > + Be gender-equal > > -The world is made of men and women. Please use gender-neutral > -constructions in your writing. This is not Political Correctness, this > +The world contains men and women. Please mix both genders > +in your examples. This is not

DevRef English writing style advice, was: incomprehensible sentence in exim4-config.pot.

2006-05-29 Thread MJ Ray
Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Quoting MJ Ray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > course expect the list to enforce the writing rules suggested in > > > DevRef #6.5 > > > > Generally, yes, but fortunately DevRef is not policy, so the > > self-contradicting bad style of s6.5.2.6 can take a runni

[D-I] New strings in partman-lvm: WAIT before translating! I need explanations by maintainers.

2006-05-29 Thread Christian Perrier
Translators, A lot of new strings have appeared recently in partman-lvm (more than 25). Before working on their translation, please wait for me to figure out with the package maintainer what is exactly their use. I'll then add comments. Maintainers, I need explanations for the following: Templa

debfoster debconf templates: do not translate!

2006-05-29 Thread Florian Weimer
Hi, the debfoster debconf templates will be removed in the next upload. Please do not translate them. Thanks, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wordforge, Pootle, GSoC, Debian

2006-05-29 Thread David Fraser
Michael Bramer wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:09:54PM +0200, David Fraser wrote: > >> History and Design >> --- >> > ... > >> Structure >> - >> > ... > >> Working Together >> >> >> It really seems like Debian and WordForge's needs and

Re: Wordforge, Pootle, GSoC, Debian

2006-05-29 Thread Clytie Siddall
Hi everyone :) Sorry I haven't been participating as usual in the post-Debconf discussions: unfortunately, I haven't been well enough. However, I've now caught up with the information, and I'm keen to use what effective time I do have, to work with the plans and decisions made at Debconf.

Re: New languages activated in D-I: Nepali and Georgian

2006-05-29 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 28/05/2006, at 11:55 PM, Christian Perrier wrote: About 10 days ago, The Nepali language, official language of Nepal, has been activated in D-I, just after Paras Pradhan, the translation coordinator commited a nearly complete file for level 1. Today, as Aiet Kolkhi, the translation coordina