OpenSUSE Weekly News/Translations

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First of all: Big thanks to all involved in creating and translating the Weekly Newsletter.

All Translators should please join the opensuse-marketing mailinglist!

Team

So far on board are (please add yourself if missing!):

French:

• Jean-Christophe Baptiste (irc: phocean)

German:

• Matthias Fehring, buschmann23 (irc: buschmann)
• Sebastian Schöbinger, STS301 (irc: STS301)

Japanese:

• Satoru Matsumoto, HeliosReds (irc: HeliosReds)
• Naruhiko (Naru) Ogasawara, naruhiko (irc: naruhiko)
• Ko Kazaana, Windhole (irc: kaza)

Polish:

• Piotrek Juzwiak, BenderBendingRodriguez (irc: ?)

Russian:

• Dinar Valeev, Eri zaq (irc: k0da)
• Александр Мелентьев (Alexander Melentiev), Minton (irc: Minton)

Spanish:

• Marco Flores, alpvonkri (irc: ?)
• Jordi Pascual, JopSway (irc: Jop/JopSway)

Portuguese (pt_br):

• Luiz Fernando Ranghetti, elchevive (irc: elchevive68)
• Raul Libório, rauhmaru (irc: rauhmaru)

Indonesian (id):

• Masim Vavai Sugianto, Vavai (irc: vavai)
• M. Edwin Zakaria, medwin (irc: slowhand)

Swedish (se):

• Geoff Roberts

Italian:

• Giuseppe "hawake" Gran

Chinese:

• Michael Cheah

Newsletter (EN):

• Jan-Simon Möller, dl9pf (irc: dl9pf)
• Stephan Binner , Beineri (irc: Beineri)
• Joe Brockmeier, zonker (irc: jbrockmeier)
• Sascha Manns, Saigkill (irc: Saigkill)
• Rupert Horskötter

Schedule

See http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/FAQ#4.29_Schedule .

If no translation is possible, either copy or link to the english version so we have always an release. (AI: need to figure out some wiki-magic ?)

Ready table

Simple "whats ready" table to synchronize our efforts.

Translation

• create a template like http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Template in your language.
• Add it to this list:
  • French
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Polish
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Dutch
  • Portuguese
  • Indonesian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Italian
• This should make translation a bit easier (preformatted template).
• Enter the status always on the "whats ready" table. We live all in different timezones, so we need a way to synchronize our efforts.
• Announcement in EN on -announce and -opensuse with links to localized versions.
• Announcements to -<de,jp,ru> lists is translator's task.

Translation tool

The translation tool should help the translators especially with the "static" strings, like "Status Updates" or "Announcements". Its available here:

http://software.opensuse.org/search/?q=weekly-news

Usage

The script takes the English edit-view and converts selected strings to a selected language. The strings are stored in an simple text-file. It will only exchange the first occurence of a string and proceed with the next string of the list. For an example copy /usr/share/doc/packages/weekly-news-translation-tool/example to your home and execute "weekly-news-translation-tool --help" or "weekly-news-translation-tool $LANG" inside that directory.

Step 1: create a working directory

mkdir issue43
cd issue43

Step 2: fetch the EN newsletter (edit-view!)

wget -nd "http://en.opensuse.org/index.php?title=OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/43&action=raw" 
rename the downloaded file to en.txt

Step 3: copy the ini-file to the working directory

copy <place of your translate.ini> ./translate.ini

Step 4: invoke the script with your $LANG as argument

weekly-news-translation-tool DE
or
weekly-news-translation-tool JP
or
weekly-news-translation-tool RU

Step 5: paste output.txt to the wiki and continue with the translation

You can extend the translate.ini easily, just add new numbers

e.g. 
4a = Status Updates 
4b = Обновление статусов

INI-Files

Please post your translate.ini - files here:

• German
• Japanese
• Polish
• Russian
• Indonesian
• Portuguese
• Simplified Chinese
• Spanish
• Traditional Chinese

A combined translate.ini (2009-01-19) is available here.

Syntax: Put your language's identifier in "[ ]". I use the TLD. So the example file has [DE], [RU] and [JP]. The strings are enumerated:

• $number + "a" for the English string
• $number + "b" for the $LANG string

Full Example:

[RU]
1a = Welcome to issue #
1b = Добро пожаловать в выпуск
2a = of openSUSE Weekly News
2b = Еженедельных новостей openSUSE
3a = Announcements
3b = Анонсы

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