Monday, 4 August 2008

KDE/Gnome Māori localisation on the rocks?

It looks like Maori localisation has been removed from the KDE 4.0 repository:

stuartyeates@stuartyeates:~/tmp/mi$ svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/l10n-kde4/mi/messages
svn: URL 'svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/l10n-kde4/mi/messages' doesn't exist
stuartyeates@stuartyeates:~/tmp/mi$ svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/l10n-kde4/mi/docmessages
svn: URL 'svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/l10n-kde4/mi/docmessages' doesn't exist
stuartyeates@stuartyeates:~/tmp/mi$ svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/stable/l10n-kde4/mi/messages
svn: URL 'svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/stable/l10n-kde4/mi/messages' doesn't exist

Things don't look good for the upcoming 4.* releases, with the stats for translation at 0%: http://l10n.kde.org/stats/gui/trunk-kde4/team/

Gnome Māori localisation is not much better: stable at 1%: http://l10n.gnome.org/teams/mi

In the medium/long term there is hope that much of this localisation can be bootstrapped by application-centric localisation that appears to be thriving, particularly with respect to firefox, thunderbird and OOo.

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