Translations of Iceweasel Debian's start page in upgrades

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:34:07PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> (CC'ing debian-i18n as I believe this has not been  brought to the
> atetntion of the mailing list yet, sorry for the noise if it has)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just upgraded my Iceweasel version in sid and was presented with
> http://mozilla.debian.net/es-ES/iceweasel/3.5.11/whatsnew/ when I started
> it.
> 
> I was wondering whether there is an ongoing translation of that page into
> spanish. It would be nice if that page/server:
> 
> - used content negotiation, as it is currently used at the web site

The url you are sent to depends on the iceweasel locale and should be
presented in the same language as iceweasel itself.

> - has its contents under a common SVN repository (at Alioth?) so translators
>   can easy access it and manage the translations

The content is under a git repo, but the repo kind of sucks at the
moment.

> - translates the file through po4a to ease the translation process as well as
>   future updates
> 
> Could you please let us know what is the current mechanism for updating the
> translations of that page?

Note that these pages may disappear or change in the near future.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/08/msg00640.html

Cheers,

Mike