Hi,

On 2/22/19 9:28 AM, Jean-Baptiste Holcroft wrote:

Hello Hans, (CC : translation mailing list)

I just read your article [1] about Flicker Free Boot[2], and it says translations are coming soon, which is a great news! Thank your for taking care of multi-lingual support :)

While this is good new, I'm worried about the f30 schedule [3]. Translators need a little time to translate, dev to release, packager to produce a new package. As we already are behind string freeze, can you please make sure to communicate here when content is ready to translate and tell us the deadline?

Thanks a lot for your help and understanding,

Thank you for getting in touch, I was planning on doing a blog post asking for translations, but the trans list probably is a better place for this.

Once I've translation support ready (the plan is to work on this starting this Monday and I hope to have it ready Tuesday) I will send another mail. I will do a Dutch translation myself, to make sure everything works as it should.

This is my first time working with translators, so I've some questions for you :)

Is there some specific infra in which I should "hookup" the plymouth package so that translators can translate it using there "usual" workflow ?

Or shall I just attach an untranslated .po file to my next mail ?

I've upstream commit access so I can merge the translations upstream myself if people send me .po files with translation for their language.

Note for now we are only talking about 3 user visible strings:

"Installing Updates..." "Do not turn off your computer" "%d%% complete"

See:

https://fedorapeople.org/~jwrdegoede/flickerfree-videos/installing.png

For how these are used. There are a bunch of other strings in the plymouth commandline tool which should probably be translated (like --help output), but my plan for the first version of translation support is to translate just these 3 strings, as these are shown to every user when doing offline-updates, where as the commandline util is normally never directly called by the user (it is called from systemd units only).

Regards,

Hans