Will there be any other set of languages for Europa

[filip]

Hi, thanks to everybody for a great release. I'm really impressed overall. Over distribution, community, web, translation marketing, design...

But I still have a question (or a wish) if is there any future for Slovenian in LIVE CD?

And another question. Will there be later any other already at least partly translated languages (like Slovenian) from Mandriva in transiflex?

[Akien]

To have new languages in Transifex, we need a team for the corresponding locale.
As of now, we don't have a Slovenian team, but we would be happy to have one. Though, Mageia 1 should be partly translated in Slovenian for we imported and clean the Mandriva translations.
So once we have a Slovenian team, we'll ask its members to upload the cleaned translations to Transifex to be able to finish their translation, and have those included in Mageia 2, and even in Mageia 1 as updates.

[filip]

Mandriva is translated exceptionally well in Slovenian. I use Mageia since first alpha and I almost didn't notice any decrease in quality regarding translation!

Is there any experience how long cleaning would take?

[Akien]

Well, the cleaning is done, but some strings may have been lost during the process.
But the need for translators is mainly because new strings are added to the softwares, or old ones are modified in order to be clearer, or more user-friendly, or whatever. We imported the softwares from Mandriva, but these are bound to evolve, and we'll need new translations.

That's why most of the translation work we did for Mageia's softwares was completing the cleaned files from Mandriva's SVN, and proofreading these translations, for there were sometimes unclear or erratic translations.

[filip]

Thanks for reminding me.

What about topic question?

[maat]

I guess the answer will depend on people volunteering for adding languages.

If you feel like volunteering for slovenian i gues i18n people would be happy to see the birth of a i18n slovenian team.

The start point is : http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=translators

Just take the slovenian team responsible job, and start translating & recruiting slovenian translators to help you.

That's as simple as that

[Akien]

Well, if I understood correctly, the topic question is more like: Will there be a Live CD ISO with Slovenian included?
There is already the Slovenian locale in the DVD ISO, but it is neither included in the Europe/America LiveCD nor in the Eastern Europe LiveCD.

Though, I don't have the answer to that question. What are the other missing European languages?

[maat]

ah... ok.

thanks for explaining

[filip]

Well, if I understood correctly, the topic question is more like: Will there be a Live CD ISO with Slovenian included?

Yes. I wrote that in first post.

There is already the Slovenian locale in the DVD ISO, but it is neither included in the Europe/America LiveCD nor in the Eastern Europe LiveCD.

True.

What are the other missing European languages?

Slovenian is one. I didn't check others as I don't know the status and quality of them.

[ahmad]

CD ISO size constraints are always a problem, software grows in size but the CD ISO is still 700MB.

Feel free to file a bug report about the Slovenian localisation packages not being on any of the live CD ISO's.