RE: KDE Translation effort starts...

["Ahmad M. Zawawi" <azawawi at emirates dot net dot ae>]

Hi there,

I am Ahmad M. Zawawi; I recently accepted the open KDE maintainer position
(a
position temporarily held by Mohammed elzubair). Please do contact me
if you're interested in doing some serious KDE translation work.

Arafat, great work on the gnome GUI front; gentlemen start your engines ;-)

Ossama, the ping/remove email idea is excellent; i vote yes for it [unless
it's
me you want to remove ofcouse ;-)]...

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GUI TRANSLATION STATUS:
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_ Per Mohammed elzubair's e-mail, we're going to miss the KDE 3.2 Release
for
sure since the KDE cvs has been officially frozen since Jan 11 2004. for
more
info see
http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.2-release-plan.html

_ Our target should be the 3.2.x Branch Releases from now onwards. So in 2-4
months we should achieve an optimistic 100% on the following
modules [ranked by descending user-friendliness importance]:

 kdebase (48.14%)
 kdelibs (66.46%)
 kdeadmin (55.65%)
 koffice (29.37%)
 kdeedu  (59.64%)
 kdeaccessibility (0%)
 kdepim (6.65%)

_ Ran diff over a fresh kde-i18n/ar CVS versus our Arabeyes CVS revealed
some minor differences; mainly about 200 files are on our CVS but not in
KDE's
CVS [should be they be deleted or am i wrong, mohammad?].

_ Need to know if there are any remaining tasks i am not aware of. if so,
would u prefer to do that over this weekend? i also need to be the contact
point for the kde in i18n.kde.org site.
see http://i18n.kde.org/teams/index.php?a=i&t=ar

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Some useful statistics (optional):
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_ Extracted the following (maybe-useful) statistics from the previously
translated KDE PO files:

_ PO file count = 577, POT file count = 106
_ 4 files are not UTF-8 enabled.
_ Emails of people previously involved which I hope they will be back again
after my constant nagging . Notice that some people
have more than one email:

(Descending Order by PO "Last Translator" file count)

 * f2c2001 at yahoo dot com  166 (29.0%)
 * bayazidi at arabeyes dot org  127 (22.2%)
 * nuriddin at haydarlinux dot org 100 (17.5%)
 * aser at arabeyes dot org  49 (8.6%)
 * nuriddin at eminaga dot de  44 (7.7%)
 * rahal at arabeyes dot org  19 (3.3%)
 * hafid71 at gawab dot com  10 (1.7%)
 * mosawi at arabeyes dot org  9 (1.6%)
 * ibrahim at arabeyes dot org  8 (1.4%)
 * usama01 at maktoob dot com  8 (1.4%)
 * mohasr at arabeyes dot org  7 (1.2%)
 * amaoui at altern dot org  5 (0.9%)
 * nuriddin5 at msn dot com  4 (0.7%)
 * ghosn at php4arab dot info  4 (0.7%)
 * okhayat at yahoo dot com  3 (0.5%)
 * EMAIL at ADDRESS   2 (0.3%)
 * abdotec at softhome dot net  2 (0.3%)
 * mutlaqja at ikarustech dot com 2 (0.3%)
 * yaqoob_aljasmi at whoever dot com 1 (0.2%)
 * munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa 1 (0.2%)
 * mih_flyer at hotmail dot com  1 (0.2%)
 * jasmi at arabeyes dot org  1 (0.2%)


That's my two cents,
/Ahmad