[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] Upstream policy

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Thursday 14 September 2006 06:42, Toby Smithe <toby.smithe at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> After the recent debate with gnome-uk, which I trust everyone on this
> list got as well (CC'd wasn't it?), it seems we need some policy
> changes. We need better communication with upstream (that is, the
> translators on gnome-uk), and must communicate with them when a
> non-literal translation is made, so that we don't have to do extra work,
> and consistency is not lost. This still leaves us with "Deleted Items",
> however. I do not propose we reverse that change, but keep upstream in
> mind in future.
>
> Good?

I totally agree. We should be more careful to do this in the future. As 
mentioned in an earlier message to this list, I have started a list of groups 
whom I believe we should be co-operating with. You can find it on our 
homepage.

We've already made a lot of progress in regards to 'Deleted Items', so I think 
it may be too late to back out now. I don't see this as too much of a 
problem, for several reasons:

  o Edgy Eft is intended to be more experimental than Dapper Drake.
  o Dapper Drake will be around for a long time (being an LTS release),
    and it still uses the old names.
  o We have succeeded in unifying the varying names for the 'Trash'.
    For example, GNOME used 'Wastebasket' and KDE used 'Wastebin'.
    The consistency we have gained potentially outweighs all else.


P.S. Sorry for the late reply - I am behind on my e-mail :(

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