[XBoard-devel] Re: Congratulations for Winboard

[Tim Mann]

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 13:09:39 +0100, "Francisco Gracia" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Excuse my delay in answering your latest messages, but I have been out of
> town and out of the computer for a couple of weeks.
> 
> I will sistematize and clarify my observations and modifications to Winboard
> and send them to you. I expect this will happen in about another ten days.
> 
> I am glad that you decided to internationalize Winboard. I will cooperate
> with the spanish side following your instructions and will begin by
> consulting the sources that you indicated. For the moment I have not been
> able to access https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/.

Unfortunately Savannah is down right now because of a breakin.  They are
trying to put it back into service soon.

So far the source code in CVS is pretty much the same as what you can
get through http://tim-mann.org/xboard.html.  However, some folks have
sent in a patch to add the basic i18n support and I hope we can apply it
soon.  I've been waiting for people to complete their copyright
assignment paperwork before we put their changes into CVS, though it's
hard to be patient with that slow process.  :-)

In the meantime you might want to join the xboard-devel mailing list at
http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xboard-devel.  You can find out
what's been happening lately by looking at the list archives.

Thanks!

> 
> Regards
> 
> F. Gracia
> 
> ----- Mensaje original -----
> De: "Tim Mann" <address@hidden>
> Para: "Francisco Gracia" <address@hidden>
> CC: <address@hidden>
> Enviado: lunes, 17 de noviembre de 2003 05:50
> Asunto: Re: Congratulations for Winboard
> 
> 
> > You don't have to be so modest.  If you have found some problems and
> > have fixes for them, please do send the explanations and the fixes.
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Recently several people have expressed interest in translating
> > XBoard/WinBoard's messages into various languages, and one person
> > expressed interest in modifying the program to be properly
> > internationalized (using GNU gettext), so that it doesn't have to be
> > edited and recompiled for each language but can just use a different
> > messages file for each one.
> >
> > I'd like to organize the folks who want to work on this and have them
> > join the XBoard/WinBoard project.  You could be the Spanish translator
> > -- so far we don't have anyone to do that.  (I've heard from people
> > interested in two people interested in Brazilian Portuguese, and there
> > are existing translations into Russian and German that we should be able
> > to adapt once the program is properly internationalized.)
> >
> > The translators will need to donate the copyright on their translations
> > to the Free Software Foundation.  I hope this would be acceptable to
> > you.
> >
> > I'll try to send out more information about this soon.  I have to dig up
> > everyone's email address from my files and compose some mail to send
> > them.  In the meantime, you could take a look at the project page at
> > http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/, if you haven't done so already.
> 
> 


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