(This mail is is the result of a little discussion on #fedora-docs with BobJensen and MrTom)
Hello everyone,
Some of u my know me, some won't. I've been on this project for almost 2 years now, translating to Dutch.
Recently I also signed up to the Fedora Documentation Project, to start translating the docs and release notes. But with FC6 coming up[1], I've seen that not to much has been translated there at the moment. We can count the number of translated release notes on one hand. FDP[2] and myself would like to see this expanded so a lot more languages get there own release notes in FC6. And because we are the translators of the programs, why can't we do the release notes as well? This is what we're good at, and wouldn't it be nice to open up Firefox on FC6 and be greeted with the release notes in your language! :)
For those who think they'll have to learn something new, don't be worried, all translation is done by .po-files, as with program-translation.
If you think you might be interested in helping out with the translation, feel free to drop by #fedora-docs or #fedora-l10n on Freenode[3] and/or read more about translating documentation on the wiki[4].
For those interested: the docs schedule[5] has also been posted to the wiki.
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Core/Schedule [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject [3] http://freenode.net/ [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Translation [5] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Schedule
On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 11:28 +0200, Bart Couvreur wrote: [...snip...]
Recently I also signed up to the Fedora Documentation Project, to start translating the docs and release notes. But with FC6 coming up[1], I've seen that not to much has been translated there at the moment. We can count the number of translated release notes on one hand. FDP[2] and myself would like to see this expanded so a lot more languages get there own release notes in FC6. And because we are the translators of the programs, why can't we do the release notes as well? This is what we're good at, and wouldn't it be nice to open up Firefox on FC6 and be greeted with the release notes in your language! :)
For those who think they'll have to learn something new, don't be worried, all translation is done by .po-files, as with program-translation.
And I just finished revising the Translation Quick Start Guide [1] -- which itself could use some more translations! -- so everything should agree with the current procedures to use. Thanks for helping!