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YANT (Yet Another Note for Translators)

  Sputnick 

After doing some more experimenting with translation workflows, our Master of Translation Daniel “al” Albers has agreed to support Transifex as an additional means to create and maintain translations for Quassel. Thus, people not having or wanting a Launchpad account can use the Transifex portal for contributing translations now! Since we’re not dependending on Ubuntu downstream for managing the translations at Transifex, we are a bit more flexible when it comes to working with contributors,...

Bumping Quassel: 0.6.1

  Sputnick 

It’s that time of the year again, when we proudly do new feature release of Quassel IRC! You might wonder why we’ve skipped the announcement for 0.6.0, though. The reason for this is that shortly after tagging, we’ve discovered two serious bugs in that version. One could make the monolithic client try to select the PostgreSQL backend rather than SQlite; the other would lead to a crash on startup in some setups. Since we usually let some days pass between tagging and announcing a release, thos...

Rosetta’s Stone Part II

  Sputnick 

As mentioned in the previous article, we’ve been trying out Launchpad/Rosetta for translations for the past few months. It took us a while to get the workflow right, since Qt still uses its own translation format that nothing else uses, and conversion is shaky; but Daniel “al” Albers with some help from Kubuntu translation expert David “dpm” Planella have gotten it working at last. Thanks! The results have been encouraging; we have quickly gained several new languages, and existing translati...

Bumping cmake requirement

  Sputnick 

Following KDE’s example, Quassel’s master branch (what will become 0.7.x) will require CMake >= 2.6.4 for building starting in May (about two weeks from now). The reason for this is that our KDE integration obviously uses parts of KDE’s build system, and we’d like to avoid spurious bugs by something not working as expected in some random script included somewhere, just because your CMake is too old. CMake 2.6.4 has been out for a long time (we’ve been at 2.8.x for ages!) and should be inc...

Rosetta’s Stone - Note for Translators

  Sputnick 

This is primarily a message for our current translators. Daniel “al” Albers has finally managed to figure out a workflow how to correctly handle .po (gettext) files for translating Quassel (a non-trivial problem, since Qt stupidly insists in using its own format). Now that Quassel uses what the rest of the world uses, this also means that we now enable the use of standard tools for translating. It so happens that Quassel has now been imported into Rosetta, Launchpad’s (Ubuntu’s) tool for ma...