[Caminol10n] How to go insane

[Smokey Ardisson]

On  1/20/08, Markus Amalthea Magnuson wrote:

>On Jan 20, 2008 9:43 PM, Marcello Testi <m.testi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > Warning! You might have just done a bit of unneeded work: Sparkle
>>  comes with a lot of ready translations.
>>  Just get Sparkle: http://andymatuschak.org/files/Sparkle-1.1.zip
>>  and expand the archive. You'll find the translations inside the
>>  Sparkle.framework/Resources/ folder.
>>  I still have to check it in real world use, but Italian .nib
>>  and .strings files look like 100% done.

If you're going to work with the Sparkle files, don't use Sparkle 
1.1; it's severely out-of-date and not what Camino is using at all.

We're using r52 of Sparkle trunk for Camino 1.6 (once 1.6 is 
released, we'll work on syncing Camino's trunk to the latest Sparkle 
trunk).  If you're familiar with cvs or svn, you can grab that 
revision from Camino/Mozilla's cvs or Sparkle's svn.  Otherwise, I 
will look in to uploading an archive of the Sparkle localizations 
from our cvs, so that everyone has nibs and strings

>The Swedish translation of Sparkle was severely broken, so I did a new
>translation of that and sent a patch to Andy. I think Camino
>translators should actually re-translate Sparkle, so it matches the
>style and wordings in the rest of the Camino translation.

I'd encourage everyone to at least look at the state of the Sparkle 
translation for your language in r52.  I did a quick run-through 
before the holidays and it looked like most of the localizations we 
ship in Camino ML are "completely translated" and reasonably 
up-to-date with the English version, but I can't say for sure that 
all of them are correct and complete.

To test your Sparkle translation, you can install your .lproj in 
Camino 1.6 Beta 1 and make it check for updates/update to Camino 1.6 
Beta 2 (the only difference between b1 and b2 is a fix for a Gecko 
bug that started causing lots of crashes just as we were "soft 
releasing" b1.

(And, since we did this very quick b2, the feature- and 
localization-freeze will be called Camino 1.6 Beta 3; same date--3 
weeks to a month from now--new name.)

Markus, I hope your sanity returns soon; that was impressive work :-)

Smokey
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Smokey Ardisson
Co-Lead
Triage/QA and Website & Documentation
The Camino Project