[translations] Translation templates for modules with sub-modules

[Gábor Hojtsy]

Gustavo, Marco, this seems to be the answer you have been waiting for?!

Gabor

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Jose A. Reyero <drupal at reyero.net> wrote:
>
> Gábor Hojtsy wrote:
>
> Jose, do you have something to add to this?
>
>
> Sure,
>
> First of all, the project is alive. A different issue issue is that the
> level/speed of contributions is really low and I have to agree we are moving
> at a really slow pace, we are trying though: (Spanish)
> http://drupal.org.es/node/4131
> (At this point I'm guessing that the current core translation is ok for most
> people, as most of the end user interface is already translated and no one
> has too much interest in translating strings like table field descriptions
> and that kind of stuff)
>
> What many people has done so far is uploading their po files. That's cool,
> but all of them are incomplete and most of them happen to have translated
> (and lack) mostly the same groups of strings (The most used UI part). This
> has resulted in a huge number of strings to review (which takes time for
> reviewers) while still there are missing ones, and that's why we are
> encouraging people not to do it anymore.
>
> That is about the Drupal 6 core translation. About the modules, we are not
> using if for contributed modules yet -which is no real  excuse for the low
> number of contributed Spanish module translations, as these can be submitted
> for each module as we've been doing for ages.
>
> So let's say just that we Spanish speaking folks are in general lazy about
> contributing.
>
> The reasons for which the DH (Drupal Spanish) site administrators have not
> added any module yet are mainly two:
> - We thought that focusing our efforts on Drupal core first was a higher
> priority.
> - So far, no one (zero people) has came forward and offered himself to
> maintain a contrib module translation.
> (Also we had some server load issues in the past, but these seem to be fixed
> now)
>
> This point, as everything else in DH is open for discussion. However, the
> first condition for considering opening the server to contributed modules is
> that someone takes reponsibility for periodically updating the module source
> po and then takes care of reviewing the translations, exporting and
> submitting the po file to the module's issue tracker. Be warned that is not
> a one time work. Modules are updated all the time and submitted strings need
> review, so we need some commitment here.
>
> So be warned that requests for other people to just do more work will be
> possibly ignored. Now if someone wants to take the job , please,
> http://drupal.org.es/forum/17 or contact the site administrators,
> http://drupal.org.es/dh/administradores
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jose
>
> Gabor
>
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Gustavo Sánchez Muñoz <gusgsm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Hi, Gabor and folks
>
> Let me please, jump into this conversation to answer a question:
>
> < Well, let's first talk about why are you going on your own way instead
> < of collaborating with the existing Spanish translation as linked from
> < the l10n server project page: http://l10n.drupal.org.es/ ?
> <2008/6/7 Marco Antonio Villegas Vega <marvil07 at gmail.com>:
> <Hi Gábor,
>
> I am doing that myself, after colaborating with that server, due to the
> sheer reason that this server and effort is half-way dead or so it seems.
> That is: You get no feedback whatsoever from that project and if people
> ready to work on translations would have to adapt to that pace, the
> translation of Drupal 6 into Spanish would be stalled, as the Drupal Hispano
> translation project seems to be.
>
> The reason why this seems to happen, I don't know and to be honest, I don't
> care. Drupal Hispano is just a group of Spanish speakers in a world full of
> them.
>
> My question then is: Does Spanish speaking folks have to quit using Drupal
> because Drupal Hispano has a slow path?
>
> Unless it's 'officially forbidden' to contribute with other ways, my own
> answer is a no.
>
> A centralized effort would be much better, of course. But the absence or
> faulty functioning of it should not hinder the sum of individual efforts in
> the Drupal.org site itself.
>
> Excuse me for jumping in, please.
>
> Gustavo Sánchez, from Madrid
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