Re: the PO files of lilypond (resending)

[Jean-Charles Malahieude]

Le 15/12/2013 21:49, Francisco Vila disait :
> 2013/12/15 Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden>
>
> > Hello Francisco and Jean-Charles,
> >
> > On 2013-12-15 16:54, Francisco Vila wrote:
> > > This is correct. Translation of PO files (which we use to
> > > maintain translations of the binary executable of lilypond -- not
> > > the translations of manuals) are managed using the TP, see [...]
> >
> > Yes, I know -- I am one of the coordinators of the TP.  :)
> >
> > The point of my email was: from the website of Lilypond it is not
> > clear *that* the translations are managed by the TP.  I would have
> > expected somewhere a paragraph explaining this clearly, including a
> > hyperlink to http://translationproject.org/domain/lilypond.html .
> > Could this be added?
> I agree this is not clearly explained and it should. Translation of
> lilypond PO files is not coordinated by our team here at lilypond, just it
> happens a few of PO translators are also documentation translators of the
> lilypond team. But most of the (very numerous) PO translators who use the
> FTP are not.
>
> An issue open for a documentation editor to write this down would be fine.
> I'll forward to devel list.

Federico, would you mind taking care of this?
Question is: Where to put this info in the CG?

> > > Which language do you want to maintain?
> >
> > I don't wish to maintain any language.  :)  I've just updated the
> > Dutch PO file a bit, and corrected a bunch of language errors in it,
> > but I have no knowledge of music, so I am a bit at a loss there.
>
> Here is a field which you can find help among us, if you want, although any
> musician or amateur can help, too.

This would deserve a notice on the TP domain that "sensibility" towards 
musical terminology would be a good thing. I remember having changed 
many strings from the former translator which were not adapted…

> > > Jean-Charles, a member of our team is in charge of
> > > sending/harvesting PO files to/from the FTP. Ff to him,
> >
> > Jean-Charles, my apologies.  When I started updating the Dutch
> > lilypond PO file, I noticed on the Lilypond site that there was a
> > more recent release, 2.17.96, which sounded to me like a release
> > of 2.18 was imminent, so I announced it immediately to the
> > translators at the TP.  But I guess I should have waited for your
> > mail.  (By the way, it is not necessary to attach a POT file; the
> > URL of the tarball that contains that POT file is enough).
> I don't know exactly what are you talking about (I seem to have missed a
> message in between), but anyway feel free to ask for any additional help.

Thanks David for this jump in the eye-catching versionning.

@Benno: That's the way I've proceeded since late 2011; I'll modify it!

Cheers,
Jean-Charles