Re: manpages-l10n: Looking for interested translators

Dear Mario and Helge hi!

I have already cloned the git repo for the manpages-l10n from Salsa to
have a look. In Salsa I have an account with the user name
"galaxico-guest" which I use to participate in some other Debian
localisation projects. I think that it is up to you/the admins of the
repository, to grant me commit access to the project, right? Is there
something else that I should do in order to get this access?

As soon as I have commit access I can get on contributing starting with a
review of the po files under the po/el directory and the addendums which
Mario suggests.

best regards

Emmanuel


> Hello Emmanuel and Helge,
>
> Am Di., 11. Jan. 2022 um 10:02 Uhr schrieb Helge Kreutzmann
> <[email protected]>:
>>
>> Hello Emmanuel,
>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 01:57:40AM +0200, galas wrote:
>> > Let me express my appreciation for your initiative to appeal to the
>> Debian
>> > Greek localisation community thus expanding the scope of translating
>> such
>> > an important part of GNU/Linux as it is the manpages.
>>
>> You are welcome, but the actual heavy lifting was done by Mario (in
>> CC), who will most certainly chime in with further details.
>>
> Thanks for your interest in man page translations. The Greek
> translations in manpages-l10n are a kind of Β»dryΒ« import: Don't be
> surprised, the files don't have a real previous translator. Because
> some projects like GNU Coreutils and Diffutils use Help2man to
> generate the English man pages, I was able to reuse the UI
> translations for the man page localization. The intro.* man pages have
> been created automatically, only for the purpose to have all man page
> sections present.
>
> Moreover, we use an addendum for each man page, which is generated
> using the script po/el/generate-addendum.sh and the contents of
> license.add. Both is translated using Google Translate; I'm quite sure
> the text needs to be tweaked ;)
>
> Best Regards,
> Mario
>