Re: 4.9 release notes

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]> wrote:
> El Divendres, 20 de juliol de 2012, a les 07:55:25, vau escriure:
>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:37 AM, Frederik Gladhorn <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Torsdag 19. juli 2012 21.15.14 skrev Albert Astals Cid:
>> >> El Dijous, 19 de juliol de 2012, a les 10:02:46, Carl Symons va escriure:
>> >> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> > <snip>
>> >
>> >> > It was a suggestion to the specific players who have been involved in
>> >> > release announcements previously. It is now communicated. What do we
>> >> > need to do for this to work? The past 2 announcements have not had
>> >> > much in the way of translations (4.8 Persian; 4.7 Estonian, Russian,
>> >> > Ukrainian)
>> >>
>> >> Right, in the latest releases there were virtually no translations
>> >> because
>> >> almost no time was given between announcement writting and announcement
>> >> publishing hence translators did not have time to translate anything.
>> >>
>> >> But as said, if the promo masterminds think that having stuff in the dot
>> >> beats having stuff translated, that's fine, it just needs to be
>> >> communicated.
>> >
>> > Absolutely not. I'm sorry, then I was too rash. We do want translations.
>> > Let's do this one as traditional on the main kde.org site then.
>> >
>> > We will get the dot translatable but it's not yet. No need to hurry it
>> > now. I just assumed there were no problems with this change. The change
>> > will make the web teams work simpler, but we need to be ready for it of
>> > course. Apologies again.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Frederik
>>
>> Yes, we want translations. Is there sufficient time to get them on the
>> main site? The past two release announcements saw few translations,
>> because there was not enough time to get them done prior to the
>> announcement release. 4.8 was translated into Persian; 4.7 was
>> available in Estonian, Russian and Ukrainian.
>
> Give me the final announcement wording by next week friday and i'll get you
> the translators ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>   Albert
>

The Dot supports translations.

As far as I know, no one has committed to have the final release
announcements done by Friday. The final wording will be available when
it's ready. At that time, the English text can be provided for
translations. We will enter translations entered when they are
returned.

Carl

>>
>> If the announcements are not going to be translated anyway, then there
>> is little lost by doing one announcement on the Dot. Having one
>> translation detracts from the fact that KDE supports more than 60
>> languages.
>>
>> Carl
>
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