[Sugar-devel] Updating and releasing translations in legacy Sugar 0.94

[Manuel Quiñones]

2013/10/20 Sebastian Silva <sebastian at fuentelibre.org>:
> Hi!
>
> I'm writing to you because you are currently listed as author of one of the
> following Sugar Activities:
>
> Browse
> Chart
> Implode
> Jukebox
> Paint
> Read
> Terminal
> Write
>
> All of these have gotten translated into Aymara and Quechua, native
> languages spoken by hundreds of thousands of people in Peru, whose children
> got XO laptops.
>
> Now what these activities have in common is that they have moved on to Gtk3
> and thus translations from pootle don't get released into Gtk2 compatible
> versions, that are compatible with Sugar 0.94.
>
> I've researched a simple process to merge translations into these legacy
> versions (posted at the bottom of this email), but I will need help from you
> getting them into ASLO, for I have not the privileges to do so.
>
> Please let me know if you are willing to do this yourself, or would like me
> to provide patches, create merge requests, ready-to-upload .xo bundles, or
> grant privileges to release to ASLO for you.
>
> Manuq for example has asked for merge requests for Browse so that he will
> release Browse 129.1 with these translations.
>
> I look forward to your response.
>
> If I don't get a response in a week or so I will begin asking the Sugar Labs
> infrastructure team to give me relevant privileges to release the bundles
> myself.
>
> Thanks in advance for your helpfulness in allowing the children of my
> country to experience the benefits of software freedom, such as being able
> to localize their software and in this simple way, give value to their own
> cultures.
>
> Best regards,
> Sebastian
> PS: Procedure as applied for Browse:
> # To be done within a clone of git://git.sugarlabs.org/browse/mainline.git

In the case of Browse, it was specifically branched off for Sugar
0.94, so the proccess is easier.  Just start from that branch.

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