Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaün <address@concealed>]

Hi Jeff,

Jeff Abbott a écrit :

> [...]
> I'm going to start going through and cleaning up some of the  
> translations immediately, hoping that they'll make it into 5.2, but I  
> won't be able to dedicate much time to it right now.  Early 2006 I  
> should be able to put some of my time towards really cleaning up the  
> English for the en_US message catalog, though.  Which brings up a  
> question:  Should we also be updating the keys for the catalog (which  
> is to say, the msgid strings) to reflect the changes I make, or  
> should we leave those as-is (which would mean that they wouldn't be  
> in sync with any of the translations)?

That's a very good news, because we're definetely not the right persons 
to fix incorrect English sentences (because we introduced them).

Fixing the msgstr entries in en_US is a good start and has the advantage 
of not disturbing all other translations of Sympa. On the other end 
other translations might certainly benefit from a better (and more 
precise) English version of  strings to translate.

If  we find an easy way  to turn  your changes to msgstr entries of 
en_US into a new version of sympa.pot, then it would make things easier 
to schedule this work for a later Sympa release.

> I'd also like to make the XHTML templates as barren and structural as  
> possible, leaving *all* style definitions to the stylesheet(s).  The  
> easier it is to restyle it to get the look you need, the less work  
> people will have to put out to do so.  Does this sound like a good  
> idea?  A bad one?

It sounds like a good idea and please send us patches of any cleanup you 
could perform to both templates and style sheet. We'll apply them to the 
development CVS branch.

Thanks.