[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Help to Find the PO file of Some Activities to able me to Translate Them

[Gary C Martin]

On 25 May 2009, at 12:33, David Van Assche wrote:

> Super... that methodology should be written up some place as its a  
> great guide to follow...

I'd much rather try and find some agreement to cut un-necessary steps,  
rather than to wikify/formalise it and push every unfortunate Activity  
author through the same sausage factory! :-)

/me puts on tinfoil hat and asbestos socks

I've still not heard a good argument for why Activity authors  
currently need to create two bundles with identical source content  
(one .xo zip and one .bz2), upload them to two different locations,  
and document them in several different places. It's really easy to get  
out of sync. I'm also still not convinced about the sanity of distros  
needing to package up each individual Activity (other than perhaps  
sucrose as one collection). If, for a moment, you think of Sugar as a  
Firefox, and Activities as Addons, does each distro really consider  
packaging up every Addon kicking about for Firefox? Once a Sugar  
release and its platform dependancies are yum, aptitude, or whatever  
installed; the Sugar UI should then be the one to add/update  
additional Activities (via Browse as currently, or via a future update  
control panel checking with activity.sugarlabs.org).

Regards,
--Gary

> David
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Gary C Martin  
> <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
>
> On 24 May 2009, at 11:47, David Van Assche wrote:
>
> Overall it would be nice if we had an activitiy matrix that showed  
> the stages of projects.
>
> The Activity Team have been making contact with past authors,  
> slowly, slowly we're moving along even if it means adopting extra  
> activities ourselves:
>
>
>        http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Activity_Status
>
> The best thing folks can do If they have a favourite activity that  
> is not yet migrated to Sugar Labs infrastructure is make some noise  
> about it. Email the IAEP and/or sugar-devel and advocate or ask  
> about it, email the author/s, see if they are still working on it or  
> have future plans. Many activity developers seem to think no one is  
> interested/using their work and often seem pleasantly surprised when  
> they get an email about their past efforts.
>
>
> This would be helpful to show what people could work on to.  
> Something like, name of activity on one side, and on the other stage  
> (planning, pre-source, alpha, beta, rc, release, packaged, xo  
> bundled, translated) Something along those lines, but I'm sure  
> someone can come up with a better matrix. If this was up at some  
> place, we could know pretty quickly what people could be working on.  
> It could even be split by distro too... The idea came to me because  
> there are a ton of git projects with no code in them.
>
> If there are git projects with no code in them, what makes you think  
> the developer will edit another page somewhere else with project  
> status information! ;-b
>
> With my activity developer hat on, I do find it a pain how many  
> seemingly random places there are to work on when releasing a new  
> version, even more for a new project, or migrated one. My check-list/ 
> todo-list is something like:
>
> If it's a new project:
>
> - Create a Gitorious project repository for it http://git.sugarlabs.org/ 
>  and start hacking on your code
>
> - Request a trac component for you activity at http://dev.sugarlabs.org/
>
> - Open a trac ticket to request addition to Pootle (if your strings/ 
> release is reasonably mature/ready)
>
> - Create a page at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/<actvity- 
> name>
>
> If it's a new release:
>
> - Update your activities wiki page at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/ 
> <actvity-name>
>
> - Upload the .xo bundle, screenshots, notes to http://activities.sugarlabs.org/
>
> - Upload .bz2 source to shell.sugarlabs.org /upload/sugar/sources/ 
> honey
>
> - Edit wiki table http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Source_Code 
>  and make sure it's pointing to your latest .bz2
>
> - Edit wiki table http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap 
>  to get it on Soas
>
> - Write a [RELEASE] <activity-name-version> email and send it to  
> sugar-devel
>
> If the project is migrating from olpc infrastructure:
>
> - Migrate git repository from http://dev.laptop.org/
>
> - Migrate open trac tickets from http://dev.laptop.org/
>
> - Track down relevant wiki.laptop.org pages and indicate the migration
>
> - For deployed activities make sure relevant http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities 
>  page version templates point to the correct/latest working bundles.
>
> I'm sure I missed a step or two, but I think you get the picture!
>
>
> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>  
> wrote:
> Hi Mohammad,
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 06:36, Mohammad Hamed <m.hamed at paiwastoon.com.af 
> > wrote:
> > Dear Software Translators,
> >
> > Could you please tell me how can I translate some Activities like:
> > Physics, X2O, WFP, Implode, Conozco Uruguay to my language?
>
> FWIW: Having spoken with Alex Levenson yesterday, I've started to  
> migrate Physics over to Suage Labs infrastructure (X2o is next on my  
> list). It runs fine on sugar-jhbuild, but does need some UI work and  
> clean-up before I request addition to pootle for translation, or  
> upload a bundle to activities.sugarlabs.org. I also mailed Jo Lee  
> (Implode) about his availability, will migrate that over as well if  
> he doesn't have the time at the moment.
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
>
> >
> > If you could tell me that how can I find the PO file of the  
> activities it
> > would be easier for me to translate them.
>
> Looks like these activities are not in pootle yet. What I think we
> should do is to contact the maintainers and work with them so their
> activities are translatable in pootle. If the activities have no
> active maintainers, then perhaps the Activity Team could adopt them?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > --------
> > Mohammad Hamed
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> > One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
> >
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