[Pkg-isocodes-devel] Mass submition of new languages for iso-codes

[Tobias Quathamer]

Am Montag, den 08.02.2010, 11:33 +0200 schrieb F Wolff:
> I can translate the 100% matches in the 639 domain, and submit it to you
> in bulk (email is probably easiest.  Since the language names differ, I
> realise there will be some non-matches (like "Dutch" not matching
> "Dutch; Flemish" in iso-codes). However, I'm sure we all agree that this
> is a good start for several languages.

Well, that does not matter, IMO. I agree that having some translations
is already a great improvement, there's no need to be at 100% right from
the start. Feel free to send an e-mail. If you're comfortable with the
Debian bug tracking system, it would probably be best to submit your
files as a new bug report against iso-codes. This way, anyone of us with
some free time on their hands could integrate your changes.

> Some of these probably should get more review, so I don't know if we
> should apply caution in some cases.

Hm, in the past, we've always integrated content we could not really
check because of missing knowledge of the language. However, all those
translations have been sent in by someone who could be contacted by
mail. Having a web-based interface, there might be more potential for
malicious submissions, if you could submit being anonym. Do you suspect
any such submissions? Do you have a concrete example at hand?

> Also, I realise you already have nso.po (coming from Translate.org.za
> in ancient times) - I would strongly recommend that we simply redo it
> entirely from the Mozilla translations I point to above.

OK.

> What is the current estimations for the freeze of testing, or other
> important dates for the iso-codes team?  How should we proceed? Just a
> mail to one of you?  And what about iso_639_3?

Well, Ubuntu will freeze on February 11, so we'll miss that date.
However, they might make freeze exceptions for us, I don't know about
that.

Debian has not yet a fixed freeze date (as far as I know), but it will
probably be sometime next month. In addition, the iso-codes package did
get freeze exceptions during our last releases, I expect that to happen
again this time.

Our own (iso-codes) release schedule is time based, and releases are
done once every month. So for the next release you have about three
weeks left.

As I already said above, the best would be to submit your translations
as a bug report against iso-codes in the Debian BTS. If you have
difficulties with that, feel free to send an email to either me or
Christian.

Regarding iso_639_3, I propose to postpone it until the first
integration of iso_639 has happened.

Regards,
Tobias

-- 
Tobias Quathamer | There are two kinds of people, those who finish
Hamburg, Germany | what they start and so on.

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