-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody! Todays mail has two reasons: 1) The first thing is you can start working on translating trunk into your lang. Though you should try to follow the textdomain status page [1] since some textdomains might still undergo larger reworks. You might want to switch your language using some different typography following the official guideline which is listed at [2].
2) The other reason for this mail is that I am currently looking for possible mentors for google code-in. Google code-in is some program by google similar to summer of code. But instead of being directed at university students it targets high school students (people have to be between 13 and 18 years old). IMO this is a great way for people to get used to open source software. A large difference to summer of code is that more than just coding is allowed as possible task. For example internationalization is allowed, too. This is where you come in. To allow students to work on the translation by either translating some parts (working units should be 2h to 8h, so something like "translate all of utbs into lang ABC" won't work) or proofreading something, we of course need mentors of the respective language. Information about how GCI is supposed to work is listed in the FAQ [3]. Here a short overview how it is supposed to work: * A student finds a task that he is interested in and claims the task. * The student works on the task and finishes it within the set deadline. * The resulting work is submitted somehow, in case of translations it would probably be a diff and/or complete po file. * The mentor reviews the submitted work. If it is sufficient the mentor acks the work and after three of those tasks are done the student gains 100$. If it is not sufficient, the mentor comments on what has to be changed/improved. What you would have to do as mentor: * Find "reasonable" tasks that make sense for your language. A task should usually take 2 to 8 hours to complete. Eg a possible task is something like "translate the campaign two brothers" (since it is rather small), "translate the first 3 scenarios of utbs", "translate the drake unit descriptions" or "proofread ABC". * Submit those tasks into the google tracker (only tasks listed in the google tracker can be worked on). Please note that the "time to complete" is *not* something like "expected time for completion" but a case of "after the task is claimed the student has X hours to get it completed". * If someone claims a task, review the committed work and provide comments. Since the submitted work has to be reviewed and acknowledge as "sufficient" we need people who are able to review the work and define what tasks are really required. This is where the language maintainers come in, since you should know what is required in your language and you should be able to review the work. If you want to have your lang participate in this, please create an account at the google site (you can eg look at the FAQ [3] and go over "sign in" there). Afterwards mail me from the address that you also use for sending me the files you want committed and tell me your link_id. I will then send you an invite for the Wesnoth project. After you got the invite you can "suggest a task". When doing so make sure to list which lang the translation is meant for and keep in mind that the students are 13 to 18 years old, making the tasks an appropriate size. In case there are questions either reply to this mail, mail me directly or ask via irc in #wesnoth-dev on irc.freenode.net. Cheers, Nils Kneuper aka Ivanovic [1] http://wiki.wesnoth.org/TextdomainStatus [2] http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Typography_Style_Guide [3] http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2010/faqs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkzW6kwACgkQfFda9thizwXCXQCgkCs4VtB3Dx7J89DvX2SRZAvy aEQAnjpvSnJWddh5c1viYXc8GuKntVkZ =4ZX6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-i18n mailing list Wesnoth-i18n@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-i18n
