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Subject: Re: Package synopses and blurbs translation
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John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 11:17:35AM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
>      John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
>      > I think the most desirable approach is to encourage package mainta=
iners, to=20
>      > append the "Synopsis", "Description", "GenericName" etc strings to=
 the .pot
>      > files for their projects.  This saves having a team of translators=
 dedicated
>      > to translating names/descriptions of packages and the translators =
who are=20
>      > already familiar with a package are in the best position to make a=
 translation.
>      >
>      > However, not all package maintainers will comply.
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
>      Right, which means the only solution that works in practice is what =
we
>      have now.
>
> Well, does it work now?  do we have translations of every package descrip=
tion in Womb?

Translations are in the www repo.

> The plain ugly truth is that we have no solution which fully works now.

Well, the package descriptions in the Womb are brand new (thanks Karl
and Brandon), and the web page <https://www.gnu.org/manual/blurbs.html>
even more so.  Yet there are already a bunch of translations available,
and it=E2=80=99s easily reusable for Guix.

See, no need to be pessimistic!  :-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.