Plasma 5.20 beta announce

[Carl Schwan]

Le mardi, octobre 6, 2020 11:03 PM, Josep Ma. Ferrer <txemaq at gmail.com> a écrit :

> El 6/10/20 a les 22:01, Xavier (Perso) ha escrit:
>
> > Hi Carl, Hi Albert, Hi everybody,
> > Thank you for your feedback.
> > For information, I translated in French, the last version of
> > kde-org-announcements-releases.po and commited it yesterday. Hoping to
> > be just-on-time to see a Plasma 5.20 announcement page in French.
> > For the second point: May be with two fields "TRANSLATOR_NAME" and
> > "TRANSLATION_EMAIL" in the ".po" file. There is something like that in
> > the docmessage files with "ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS". The content of the
> > fields could be defined by each localization team.
>
> This only works if there is only one translator for all announcements
> for the same language. If announcements are translated by two or more
> translators, we need a "TRANSLATOR_NAME" and "TRANSLATION_EMAIL" for
> each announcement, with different field names. This will add additional
> work and complexity, from my point of view. On the other hand, there
> aren't mentions to authors in webpages, so neither will be to
> translators, IMHO

I used TRANSLATOR_NAME_PLASMA_5.20.0 so that we are able to specify for
each announcement who translated it.

As for mentioning the authors, I don't think there is an interest inside
the promo team, but I will discuss it with the Promo team tomorrow.

>
> Josep Ma. Ferrer
>
> > My last question: how to access to "Promo" mailing list?
> > Hope it helps.
> > Cheers,
> > Xavier
> > Le 06/10/2020 à 11:04, Carl Schwan a écrit :
> >
> > > Le lundi, octobre 5, 2020 3:07 PM, Xavier (Perso)
> > > xavier.besnard at neuf.fr a écrit :
> > >
> > > > Hello everybody,
> > > > Salut Xavier,
> > > > I am a French translator for KDE since many years. At this time, I
> > > > am working on the translation for the following files for KDE web
> > > > pages:
> > > > -   kde-org-announcements-releases.po
> > > > -   www_www.po (with an important backlog)
> > > > I would like to propose a French page for the coming Plasma 5.20
> > > > announcement, i.e. just adding a "French" link and web page to that
> > > > kind of page https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.19.5).
> > > > Because, Plasma 5.20 announcement is close, what are the conditions
> > > > to achieve this objective?
> > > > Like Albert said we need 100% of the strings present on the specific
> > > > announcement page.
> > > > I added a few more strings yesterday (alt text for images) and a few
> > > > typos were fixed, but now
> > > > the translations are considered final and won't change until the
> > > > announcement. Unfortunately,
> > > > I don't have much time to help, but it might be a good idea to ask
> > > > for help in the
> > > > #kde-francophone:kde.org Matrix channel.
> > >
> > > > Another question concerning  localized KDE webpages. In most KDE
> > > > applications, there is a credit/thanks for developers but also for
> > > > translators.
> > > > It isn't the case for webpages. So no feedback is possible to fix
> > > > incorrect translations/layout and no thanks. Had this topic been
> > > > already discussed and decided?
> > > > I don't think this has been discussed and I'm quite open to add such
> > > > a feature to the websites.
> > > > Unfortunally I'm not sure how to implement this. We probably only
> > > > want to credit the translators
> > > > who worked on a specific announcement otherwise we would have a
> > > > really big list of people who
> > > > contributed other the years to www_www.po in each announcement.
> > >
> > > Any ideas how this could be implemented?
> > > Maybe adding a "Plasma 5.20.0: TRANSLATOR_NAME" string and let
> > > translators replace it with their
> > > name in it could work?
> > > Also I think it would be a good idea to discuss with Promo how we
> > > want to promote the translations
> > > of the announcements. Currently there is a log of missed potential
> > > that translators are translating
> > > the announcements but the translations are not always shared on
> > > social medias.
> > > Cheers,
> > > Carl
> > >
> > > > Thank you for your feedback. Have a nice day.
> > > > Xavier
> > > > Le 10/09/2020 à 14:49, Jonathan Riddell a écrit :
> > > >
> > > > > The beta announce is up now on kde-org repo for translations. 
> > > > > Publishing on Thursday.
> > > > > Jonathan
> > > > > --
> > > > > Xavier under Kubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Dev)