Re: [PATCH/RFC 00/17] Begin gettextizing Git

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:08, Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason:
>
>> With it applied git-init is the one and only utility of the porcelain
>> that's translatable. The series includes a translation of it into Icelandic
>> and Polish.
>
> Very interesting. I would like to contribute a Swedish translation as time
> permits.

Great!

> Any chance the translations could be co-ordinated through Translation
> Project <URL:http://translationproject.org/>? I know I suggested this, and
> was turned down, for gitk and git-gui, but this translation is potentially
> larger and could benefit from the co-ordinated effort.

Something like that would be welcome. Personally I'm happy with
editing *.po files locally with Emacs's po-mode, but to get more
translators we probably want a friendly web interface like that at
some point. Preferably with an active translation community.

I meant to look at this myself at some point, but if you could help
that'd be great!

The only reference I could find to a previous git +
translationproject.org discussion was this:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/3/14/1163164 Is that the
one you're talking about?

I've used Launchpad somewhat for translating and it's friendly to
contributors & has an active community, but it seems to require that
we BSD-license our translations[1], which would be a showstopper since
we'd have to contact everyone who's been submitting GPL-2-only strings
to Git for the last 5 years.

Translationproject seems to have a similar requirement[2], but they
seem require you to send a letter to the FSF through snail mail before
you can contribute (maybe not, I didn't read all their docs
carefully). That would be a major hurdle to casual contributors.

1. https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/LicensingFAQ
2. http://translationproject.org/disclaim.txt