[Pkg-isocodes-devel] iso_3166-2.0.pot

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Benno Schulenberg (coordinator at translationproject.org):
> Tobias Toedter wrote:
> > The tarball can be found here:
> ><ftp://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/pub/pkg-isocodes/iso-codes-2.0.tar.bz2>
> >
> > This time, we've received updates for Galician, Hebrew, and
> > Indonesian without using the TP (all for the domain iso_3166
> > only). Maybe you should mark those languages as external as well.
> 
> Sorry, I can't be bothered, if you can't be bothered to refuse 
> updates when they don't come through the expected channel.


Well, in Debian we *need* these updates (for our installer) and
we are using direct updates through Debian BTS for ages.

So, please understand that it takes time for us to put things in order
and properly identify what translations are to be considered as
external. We're doing our best (particularly Tobias) to suggest
existing translators to join the TP, but that won't succeed for all of
them and we sometimes have things to release.

iso-codes originated in Debian and I will personnally veto any choice
that could make Debian goals harder to achieve. That includes anything
that can make ISO-3166 translation updates no longer coming for some
languages.


When it comes at ISO_3166, which is the part for which we needs great
reactivity from the *existing* teams of translators in Debian, I
really wonder whether we won't end up with nearly *all* translations
to be defined as external. Our translators will have the final word
about using our SVN directly or using the TP. If they don't want to
use the TP, we'll have no choice but asking these translations to be
external.

Maybe we'd better completely disable iso_3166 in the TP in case
defining a lot of translations as external is too much hassle, or not
accepted by the TP. Doing so, we'll lose a few active translators
(Dutch, Esperanto) but, indeed, not that much.


Tobias, I won't argue more in that thread and let you handle this but
please understand that, as Debian Installer i18n coordinator as well
as one of the iso-codes maintainers, I don't really intend to have our
main goals slowed down.



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