Call for translators

[Dwayne Bailey]

On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 13:13 +0200, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
> Dwayne Bailey wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 12:52 +0200, Paul Vriens wrote:
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> >> If you like to help out Wine but don't want to touch any of these 
> >> resource files we can help you out. Please sent us an email with the 
> >> language you'd like to translate Wine into and we will sent you the more 
> >> familiar po files. These files show all the translatable strings from a 
> >> resource file but in a less intriguing format. Once translated, you can 
> >> sent these files back and we will turn them into the proper resource files.
> >>
> >> 'We' for now are Michael Stefaniuc and Paul Vriens but I guess others 
> >> will chime in if needed.
> > 
> > Could I offer to help an admin setup a Pootle server on Wine servers for
> > those who want/need to translate in PO format?
> Paul and I didn't plan to go that far yet but why not...
> Jeremy Newman is the winehq.org admin but he is chronically out of spare
> time.

Jeremy, how can I help?  Do you want to exchange some emails and we can
see if we can build a plan for implementation of Pootle on winehq.org?

> > In terms of PO format are you using rc2po from the Translate Toolkit?
> Yes. rc2po seems to work just fine. Though there are problems with po2rc
> but I didn't have yet time to look at fixing them.

Glad to see its useful and looking forward to patches ;)

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