Hello, My name is Alexander Shopov. I am the committer of the Bulgarian Gnome translation project. Is it possible for a project like this to become an official GNU project? It seems that GNOME is an official GNU project so a translation of it could become GNU project as well. I am filling the questionnaire provided here: http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html * General Information ** Do you agree to follow GNU policies? Yes, I agree with the conditions set in this document: http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html ** Package name and version: Bulgarian translation of Gnome interface and documentation. Additional translations of Gnome related programs (mainly graphical programs using the gtk+ toolkit.) A full listing of programs, documentation, licenses, URL-s to programs can be found at the end of letter since it is a very long one. ** Author Full Name : TODO: Fill all the names of translators. ** URL to home page (if any): http://fsa-bg.org/project/gtp/ ** URL to sources (if any): http://fsa-bg.org/repos/gtp/ ** Brief description of the package: This is the Bulgarian translation of free Gnome programs and their help. * Code ** Dependencies: As these are mainly text files - there are no dependencies similar to a normal program. However - in order to use them the following are necessary: -- GNU gettext: to convert po-files to mo-files. -- GNOME intltools: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/intltool/ : to convert xml<->po. ** Configuration & compilation: -- As translations by themselves are not a whole program, they have no separate makefiles and configure system. They depend on the underlying sprograms. ** Documentation: -- The provided documentation for the Gnome programs is in po-format. It is convertible to docbook. In all honesty - I am unaware of the possibility of converting to and from texinfo. The documentation is in Cyrillic. * Licensing: -- The programs and their translations are free. Documentation is under GFDL and has no invariable sections. * Similar projects: -- I am unaware of similar projects - translating GNOME in Bulgarian. * Any other information, comments, or questions: We are currently using Subversion for source control which is a free program and Trac as bugtracking system. Subversion is licensed under http://subversion.tigris.org/license-1.html (I do believe this is a free software license, however I do not see it here: "Apache Software License, version 2.0" http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Trac is licensed under http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracLicense If possible we would like to keep these. There are similar projects accepted in GNU: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/serbiangnome/ http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnome-tamil/ +-----------------+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--------------+ | atk | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/atk/ | Yanko Kaneti | GNU LGPL 2.0 | | | | Alexander Shopov | | +-----------------+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--------------+ | gail | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gail/ | Vladimir Petkov | GNU LGPL 2.0 | | | | Alexander Shopov | | +-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+ | gconf | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gconf/ | Borislav Aleksandrov | GNU LGPL 2.0 | | | | Rostislav Raykov | | | | | Alexander Shopov | | +-----------------+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--------------+ | glib | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/glib/ | Borislav Aleksandrov | GNU LGPL 2.0 | | | | Alexander Shopov | | +-----------------+--------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------+--------------+ | gnome-vfs | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-vfs/ | Borislav Aleksandrov | GNU GPL 2.0 | | | | Alexander Shopov | GNU LGPL 2.0 | | | | Peter "Peshka" Slavov | | | | | Rostislav Raykov | | | | | Vladimir Petkov | | +-----------------+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--------------+ | gtk+-properties | | Borislav Aleksandrov | GNU LGPL 2.0 | | | | Yanko Kaneti | | | | | Rostislav Raikov | | | | | Vladimir Petkov | | | | | Alexander Shopov | | +-----------------+----------------------------------------------+ ----------------------------------------------+--------------+ | gtk+ | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gtk%2B/ | Borislav Aleksandrov | GNU LGPL 2.0 | | | | Yanko Kaneti | | | | | Vladimir Petkov | | | | | Alexander Shopov | | +-----------------+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--------------+ | libbonobo | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libbonobo/ | Yanko Kaneti | GNU GPL 2.0 | | | | Rostislav Raykov | GNU LGPL 2.0 | | | | Alexander Shopov | | +-----------------+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--------------+ | libbonoboui | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libbonoboui/ | Alexander Shopov | GNU GPL 2.0 | | | | Yanko Kaneti | GNU LGPL 2.0 | | | | Vladimir Petkov | | | | | Rostislav Raykov | | +-----------------+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--------------+ | libgnome | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libgnome/ | Alexander Shopov | GNU LGPL 2.0 | | | | Yanko Kaneti | | | | | Vladimir Petkov | | +-----------------+----------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ | libgnomecanvas | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libgnomecanvas/ | Rostislav Raykov | GNU LGPL 2.0 | | | | Alexander Shopov | | +-----------------+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--------------+ | libgnomeui | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libgnomeui/ | Borislav Aleksandrov | GNU LGPL 2.0 | | | | Vladimir Petkov | | | | | Alexander Shopov | | +-----------------+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--------------+