Hey Harshula,
Thanks and it reminded me the process from the history. ;-). Now I'm
updated. I'll see the possible way that I can contribute.!
Cheers mate!
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Harshula <harshula@???> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 20:48 +0530, Anu-Linux wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Harshula <harshula@???> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 18:00 +0530, Anu-Linux wrote:
> >
> > > Thank you for the updates. I wish you guys will be able to
> > push it to
> > > the upstream.
> >
> >
> > Push what upstream?
> >
> >
> > Humm... well "upstream" :D
>
> You want to push "upstream" upstream? ;-) What is it that you want
> pushed upstream?
>
> > Are you volunteering?
> >
> > I would love to. But the thing is I'm not in a programming background.
> > (That's why all this "upstream", "downstream" or what ever did not
> > went correctly to my head). That's why I asked "how can any one of us
> > contribute?". Look, you must have talk about this many times in the
> > lists, but can you talk about it once more for the "new year"
> > please :D...
>
> I've been working on adding Sinhala support to GNU/Linux since 2003 and
> predominately by myself for most of that time. What I noticed is that
> people rarely have the free time for regular contributions.
>
> Back in May 2008 I requested help to maintain sinhala.sf.net Ubuntu and
> Debian packages:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1210607606.21701.38.camel%40B1.HOME&forum_name=sinhala-technical
>
> I delegated the task to Dushara and Anuradha R. because of their
> previous contributions to the Sinhala GNU/Linux effort. Unfortunately,
> both have had limited free time. I am finding myself in the same
> situation. And the best solution is to get all patches upstream and to
> not maintain our own patched packages.
>
> There are two main tasks:
>
> 1) i18n - internationalization - enabling Sinhala support
> 2) l10n - localization - translating the UI to Sinhala
>
> The first task, i18n, is in maintenance mode. If someone finds a
> technical problem or bug when using Sinhala on GNU/Linux please report
> it to sinhala-technical@??? or linux@???.
>
> The second task, l10n, requires more contributors. Danishka has been
> translating the UI single handedly for some time now. If you want to
> help with the translating, send an email to
> Sinhala-Unicode@??? or sinhala@???.
>
> Translating the UI to Sinhala should be our focus now!
>
> cya,
> #
>
>
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