[packagekit] using launchpad for gnome-packagekit translation?

[Mark Krapivner]

well, at least a tried :-)

2008/9/18 Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>

> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 16:25 +0300, Mark Krapivner wrote:
> > >IMHO getting THE (both correct and coherent) translation is more
> > >important than just getting A translation.
> >
> > agreed, every translation's on launchpad can be edited and improved
> > many times by many people.
>
> All the translations in gnome-packagekit are done by the GNOME
> translation teams. Why?
>
> * They are the best translation teams in open source
> * I trust them with security sensitive dialogs
> * The teams verify each others work, and the translations are very high
> quality with very few errors
>
> I don't want to use launchpad as:
>
> * It's not an upstream solution
> * When working on gnome-power-manager none of the launchpad translations
> were sent upstream, nor did they work with the GNOME translation teams
> * I don't want to use bzr
>
> The only slight sub-optimal process for me is that gnome uses svn, and I
> use git, but I mostly manage to keep them in sync. When GNOME switches
> to Transifex all my dreams will be answered.
>
> I work at Red Hat, and Red Hat pays me to work on PackageKit (well, some
> of my time at least) but I didn't want to host the website on their
> servers even though they offered. I know it's all marketing, but being
> associated with a "downstream" distro is a very bad thing for a 100%
> "upstream" project like PackageKit.
>
> Sorry to be blunt.
>
> Richard.
>
>
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