[12:05] <jokerdino> if my supposed patch to bug 936403 is accepted, would that break translations for software-center?
[12:35] <dpm> jokerdino, let me have a look...
[12:37] <dpm> jokerdino, yes, it will. The right way to fix it is to additionally modify the English string in all .po files.
[12:39] <jokerdino> wow, that must take a while to fix then.
[12:46] <dpm> jokerdino, it can be done with a script: e.g., you could iterate through all .po files and execute 'sed' to do the substitutions. Then you could submit a new patch that includes this change in the .po files
[12:58] <amithkk> \o/
[12:58] <jokerdino> :)
[13:00] <amithkk> Please let the bot be here :D
[13:01] <amithkk> !translators
[13:01] <twobottux`> Factoid 'translators' not found
[13:01] <amithkk> !translate
[13:01] <twobottux`> Translate Ubuntu into your own language, important translations that are needed are listed first. See https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/
[13:02] <TLE> hmmm tried reading the name a loud, "2 buttocks"
[13:02] <TLE> *G*
[13:03] <amithkk> Check this out
[13:03] <amithkk> launchpad 5321
[13:03] <twobottux`> Launchpad bug 5321 in bzr "bzr missing reports merged revisions" [Medium,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/5321
[13:09] <jokerdino> dpm i edited the hw.py file which autogenerates all the .po files. Not sure manually editing it would help..
[13:14] <dpm> jokerdino, that fixed the original string, but the original string in the PO files should be changed too, so that translations are kept
[13:16] <jokerdino> oh i see.
[13:16] <jokerdino> will get to it soon.
[13:17] <dpm> no worries, thanks :)
[15:58] <kelemengabor> dpm: did you see what wrote TLE on the UTC list? he encouraged someone to translate to a dead and therefore unsupported language :\
[17:35] <dpm> hi kelemengabor. Yeah, but if the guy wants to drive the project, I think we should point him to how to do it. There used to be a Latin translation team in gnome a while ago too. We'll see how it goes, and if he gets past the step of creating a team
[17:36] <kelemengabor> well, then good luck to him getting past Ulrich Drepper :)
[17:38] <kelemengabor> but my opinion is that we should explicitly state somewhere on the wiki that libc won't support dead/fictional languages, and so we won't either
[17:45] <dpm> kelemengabor, ah I thought there was an ISO for it
[17:45] <dpm> sorry, I meant an iso code
[17:45] <dpm> so if there isn't, yeah he will be the contention barrier :)
[17:46] <dpm> kelemengabor, I think the idea of the disclaimer is good, would you like to add it to the StartingTeam wiki page?
[17:47] <dpm> oh, and good work with bug 875017, btw :)
[17:48] <kelemengabor> :)
[17:48] <kelemengabor> it was a nasty one, indeed :)
[17:49] <kelemengabor> I meant not the iso code as a barrier, but this approach: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4086
[17:49] <twobottux`> sourceware.org bug 4086 in localedata "piglatin language is missing in locale" [Enhancement,Resolved: wontfix]
[17:50] <kelemengabor> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6583
[17:50] <twobottux`> sourceware.org bug 6583 in localedata "Please add a locale for Latin" [Enhancement,Resolved: wontfix]
[17:50] <kelemengabor> oh and there is another for exactly latin
[17:50] <dpm> ha! the LP bug bot has stopped working, but there is another bot that works with other bug trackers
[17:52] <kelemengabor> I think it would be only matter of bringing it back, a clone bot on #ubuntu-hu just said the same about this link :)
[17:55] <dpm> so I think adding something along the lines of Ulrich Drepper's answer on the first bug is something we could add to the wiki. But of course, rewording it in a way the person asking does not feel they've comitted capital sin for asking...
[17:56] <kelemengabor> dpm: I was thinking about linking these bug reports :)
[17:56] <dpm> lol, please don't! :)
[17:56] <kelemengabor> :D
[17:57] <dpm> we want more contributors, not less :D
[17:57] <kelemengabor> okay. now, let me see this starting team wiki page...
[18:06] <kelemengabor> dpm: how about this:
[18:06] <kelemengabor>  * (./) '''Natural language'''. Make sure the language is spoken by real people. There isn't, and there won't be locale support for languages that are spoken by no one at home - so dead languages like Latin or fictional ones like Klingon won't have any support in Ubuntu, sorry.
[18:08] <kelemengabor> this will go under the Before you apply section as the second item, if you don't know a better place
[18:10] <dpm> kelemengabor, sounds good. I might want to review the text in more detail later on, but at a quick glance it looks good. Feel free to add it and thanks!
[18:12] <kelemengabor> changes saved
[18:12] <dpm> cool
[18:13] <kelemengabor> now it's heart breaking time again :(
[18:37] <dpm> kelemengabor, no worries, you took care of it last time, I'll reply this time around
[18:37] <kelemengabor> no, I already have the mail half done :)
[18:39] <dpm> ok, no problem in leaving it up to you, then :)