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 <Email>:

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 <yaneti@declera.com>             | GNU LGPL 2.0 |
|                 |                                              | Alexander Shopov <ash@contact.bg>             |              |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--------------+
| gail            | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gail/           | Vladimir Petkov <vpetkov@i-space.org>         | GNU LGPL 2.0 |
|                 |                                              | Alexander Shopov <ash@contact.bg>             |              |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| gconf           | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gconf/          | Borislav Aleksandrov <B.Aleksandrov@cnsys.bg> | GNU LGPL 2.0 |
|                 |                                              | Rostislav Raykov <zbrox@i-space.org>          |              |
|                 |                                              | Alexander Shopov <ash@contact.bg>             |              |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--------------+
| glib            | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/glib/           | Borislav Aleksandrov <B.Aleksandrov@cnsys.bg> | GNU LGPL 2.0 |
|                 |                                              | Alexander Shopov <ash@contact.bg>             |              |
+-----------------+--------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------+--------------+
| gnome-vfs       | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-vfs/      | Borislav Aleksandrov <B.Aleksandrov@cnsys.bg> | GNU GPL 2.0  |
|                 |                                              | Alexander Shopov <ash@contact.bg>             | GNU LGPL 2.0 |
|                 |                                              | Peter "Peshka" Slavov <pslavov@i-space.org>   |              |
|                 |                                              | Rostislav Raykov <zbrox@i-space.org>          |              |
|                 |                                              | Vladimir Petkov <kaladan@i-space.org>         |              |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--------------+
| gtk+-properties |                                              | Borislav Aleksandrov <B.Aleksandrov@CNsys.bg> | GNU LGPL 2.0 |
|                 |                                              | Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@declera.com>             |              |
|                 |                                              | Rostislav Raikov <zbrox@i-space.org>          |              |
|                 |                                              | Vladimir Petkov <vpetkov@i-space.org>         |              |
|                 |                                              | Alexander Shopov <ash@contact.bg>             |              |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------+ ----------------------------------------------+--------------+
| gtk+            | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gtk%2B/         | Borislav Aleksandrov <B.Aleksandrov@CNsys.bg> | GNU LGPL 2.0 |
|                 |                                              | Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@declera.com>             |              |
|                 |                                              | Vladimir Petkov <vpetkov@i-space.org>         |              |
|                 |                                              | Alexander Shopov <ash@contact.bg>             |              |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--------------+
| libbonobo       | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libbonobo/      | Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@declera.com>             | GNU GPL 2.0  |
|                 |                                              | Rostislav Raykov <zbrox@i-space.org>          | GNU LGPL 2.0 |
|                 |                                              | Alexander Shopov <ash@contact.bg>             |              |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--------------+
| libbonoboui     | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libbonoboui/    | Alexander Shopov <ash@contact.bg>             | GNU GPL 2.0  |
|                 |                                              | Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@declera.com>             | GNU LGPL 2.0 |
|                 |                                              | Vladimir Petkov <kaladan@i-space.org>         |              |
|                 |                                              | Rostislav Raykov <zbrox@i-space.org>          |              |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--------------+
| libgnome        | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libgnome/       | Alexander Shopov <ash@contact.bg>             | GNU LGPL 2.0 |
|                 |					         | Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@declera.com>             |              |
|		  |					         | Vladimir Petkov <vpetkov@i-space.org>         |              |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| libgnomecanvas  | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libgnomecanvas/ | Rostislav Raykov <zbrox@i-space.org>          | GNU LGPL 2.0 |
|		  |						 | Alexander Shopov <ash@contact.bg>             |              |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--------------+
| libgnomeui      | http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libgnomeui/	 | Borislav Aleksandrov <B.Aleksandrov@cnsys.bg> | GNU LGPL 2.0 |
|		  |						 | Vladimir Petkov <vpetkov@i-space.org>         |              |
|                 |                                              | Alexander Shopov <ash@contact.bg>             |              |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--------------+










