Proofreading Team

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In addition to the established translation teams, let's start a software proofreading team.

If you are an (American) English native speaker or someone with deep knowledge in English and you want to improve the software strings of YaST and other tools, join the proofreading team and the team's mailinglist by sending a subscribe request to opensuse-proofreading+subscribe@opensuse.org (the contents of the mail does not matter)!

We will grant you SVN commit rights, if wanted. Discuss your application by sending your Novell account name (Bugzilla login) to the list after subscription (opensuse-proofreading@opensuse.org) and access your wiki user page at

   http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/User:<NAME>

Replace "<NAME>" with your actual user name.

Initial team members are:

• Enderandrew
• bmynars
• sinewalker
• DenverD
• ggenius
• z01111010

Before starting proofing, read the "Style Guide for SUSE Program Texts" (http://forgeftp.novell.com/yast/doc/SL11.0/styleguide/index.html) and proof according to these guidelines.

The Proofing Process

• Find the files to be proofed in the 50-proof directory of the SVN repository (https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/suse-i18n/trunk/yast/50-proof). For information about accessing the SVN repository, see below. These are POT files. You can use the known POT or PO files editors such as kbabel, Emacs/po-mode, or poedit.
• If possible, check every file completely. Initially, all message strings are empty and marked as fuzzy:

 #: disk/src/disk.ycp:50
 #, fuzzy
 msgid "<p>Please wait, while volumes are being detected.</p>"
 msgstr ""

• • If you want to approve a message, just remove the fuzzy marker and keep the msgstr field empty:

 #: disk/src/disk.ycp:50
 msgid "<p>Please wait, while volumes are being detected.</p>"
 msgstr ""

• • If you want to supply a correction, enter a "translation" and remove the fuzzy marker:

 #: disk/src/disk.ycp:50
 msgid "<p>Please wait, while volumes are being detected.</p>"
 msgstr "<p>Wait, while volumes are being detected.</p>"

• • In case of doubt, keep the fuzzy maker for the moment, thus other team members can find and check it:

 #: disk/src/disk.ycp:50
 #, fuzzy
 msgid "<p>Please wait, while volumes are being detected.</p>"
 msgstr "<p>Wait, while volumes are being detected.</p>"

• Once the proofreading round is finished, the software developers will carry over your corrections into the source code and we will store all approved or improved strings in our string database.

Working with the SVN repository

For information about accessing the SVN repository, see http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Suse-i18n-downloads . If possible, use the SVN command line tools, for example as follows:

• Check out:
  svn co https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/suse-i18n/trunk/yast/50-proof
• Change into the working directory for editing:
  cd 50-proof
• Edit the POT files in this directory...
• Check in:
  svn ci -m'fix typos' file.pot
  Replace file with the actual file name you want to check in.