[mythtv] [mythtv-dev] Slovenian translation

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Mon Oct 23 18:36:45 UTC 2006


On 10/23/06, Daniel Staaf <dst at bostream.nu> wrote:
> Erik Robnik wrote:
> >
> > Now I have updated mythtv to latest version  ---> gues what --> only first
> > slovenian translation from year 2005 (cvs version)
>
> Unfortunately the ticket was not assigned to the person handling
> translations "oscar" (Oscar Carlsson <webmaster at trekotor.se>) so it is
> not surprising that he did not find it among the many open tickets in
> Trac before the release. Isaac reassigned the ticket five days ago (you
> are lucky, he obviously has more important things to do than checking
> stale tickets) so now it should only be a matter of time before the
> translation is updated. Do not expect it to happen immediately though,
> it is a waste of time to update translations in the beginning of a
> development cycle as the texts tend to change *a lot*. You may have to
> wait a month or two. The rapid pace of development in MythTV does not
> make life easy for translators.
>
> You might argue that the documentation is not clear on how to assign
> tickets but the fact is that if you had searched the mail archives or
> browsed Trac you would have seen how to create a proper ticket.
>
> Also, note that if you update the translation after the ticket has been
> closed (and applied hopefully), do not reopen it but create a new one.
> Isaac does not like reopened tickets (I have made that mistake before).
>
> > I would REALY like to give someone this translated files (in any format),
> > just tell me please to whom (myth-dev, trac, .....)
>
> You already have but please remember that all developers are volunteers
> doing the work in their spare time. That means that they can be too busy
> to apply tickets for weeks or months (let alone reading all the mail
> that comes through the mailing list) and there is nothing wrong with
> that. It is probably a cultural/translation problem but to me your email
> (in several copies the last few days) seems a bit hostile and that may
> be why you did not get any answer until now.

It could be applied to the fixes branch though. we'll have to see what
Oscar decides to do with it.

-- 
Steve
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