Lithuanian translation: moving from unfinished AOO 3.4.1 to AOO 4.0

[Aivaras Stepukonis <as...@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I started the Lithuanian translation of AOO 3.4.1 
<https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121877> in the late 
Spring/early Summer of this year while AOO 4.0 was approaching.

I was making a slow, yet consistent progress, completing about 50-60% of 
the translation, but was then side-tracked for a couple of months by 
other important matters.

The reason for the slow tempo of my work was mainly due to my effort to 
bring the LT translation up to a whole new level of integrity by 
reaching to its core and revising some of its basic root metaphors (such 
as the user-oriented chancellery analogy of "desktop-folder-file" used 
in English and almost entirely lost in Lithuanian which it should not 
have been).

In a couple of weeks I will be in a position to resume my work on the 
Lithuanian translation. In addition, a few days ago I was approached by 
another potential volunteer whose help would speed things up.

My question is this: at this point, it would be more reasonable to 
proceed with the translation of AOO 4.0, yet I don't want to lose the 
precious work I've done on the translation of AOO 3.4.1. Can I submit my 
current PO files for AOO 3.4.1. so they get integrated into the language 
files for AOO 4.0 and then can I receive the PO files for AOO 4.0?

Sincerely,

Aivaras Stepukonis

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Re: Lithuanian translation: moving from unfinished AOO 3.4.1 to AOO 4.0

[Jürgen Schmidt <jo...@gmail.com>]

On 7/30/13 4:36 PM, Aivaras Stepukonis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I started the Lithuanian translation of AOO 3.4.1
> <https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121877> in the late
> Spring/early Summer of this year while AOO 4.0 was approaching.
> 
> I was making a slow, yet consistent progress, completing about 50-60% of
> the translation, but was then side-tracked for a couple of months by
> other important matters.
> 
> The reason for the slow tempo of my work was mainly due to my effort to
> bring the LT translation up to a whole new level of integrity by
> reaching to its core and revising some of its basic root metaphors (such
> as the user-oriented chancellery analogy of "desktop-folder-file" used
> in English and almost entirely lost in Lithuanian which it should not
> have been).
> 
> In a couple of weeks I will be in a position to resume my work on the
> Lithuanian translation. In addition, a few days ago I was approached by
> another potential volunteer whose help would speed things up.
> 
> My question is this: at this point, it would be more reasonable to
> proceed with the translation of AOO 4.0, yet I don't want to lose the
> precious work I've done on the translation of AOO 3.4.1. Can I submit my
> current PO files for AOO 3.4.1. so they get integrated into the language
> files for AOO 4.0 and then can I receive the PO files for AOO 4.0?

It would definitely make sense to focus on AOO 4.0 and where most of the
work form 3.4.1 is nece3ssary anyway. We have already Lithuanian added
on Pootle in the 4.0 project (https://translate.apache.org/lt/aoo40/
and https://translate.apache.org/lt/aoo40help/)

The related po files can be found under

http://people.apache.org/~jsc/translation/aoo40_ui_lt_po-files.zip
http://people.apache.org/~jsc/translation/aoo40_help_lt_po-files.zip

Nothing happened on Pootle so far in the 4.0 project that means the po
files should be up-to-date.

We are currently planning how to move forward, continue working on the
4.0 project or create a new project for ongoing translations (fix
problem or general improvements, completion) and a language update
release.

Juergen




> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Aivaras Stepukonis
> 
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