Mailman 3 July 2008 - Mailman-i18n

pootle.metalab.unc.edu maintenance reboot at 22:00 Eastern tonight.
by Cristóbal Palmer 20 Jul '08

20 Jul '08

That's about 1h20min from now. Should be down for under 10 minutes. Cheers, -- Cristóbal Palmer ibiblio.org systems administrator

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Problems to upgrade/commit in mailman.pootle
by Piarres Beobide 19 Jul '08

19 Jul '08

Hello everyone: As I said to friedel and Clytie in IRC I have trouble to update/commit the translation of Basque mailman in pootle [1]. As I see and I checked with the admin (clytie) I have enough rights to make these actions. Logs in browser: Commit: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Update: [BZR] cat failed for '/root/stable/messages/eu/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po': bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: "/root/stable/messages/.bzr/branch/". I hope this can help to fix this error. [1] - http://pootle.metalab.unc.edu

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Generating pot file from templates/en
by Tokio Kikuchi 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Hi i18n users, Sometime ago, I wrote a script to generate pot entries from templates/en files, because web based translation is on the discussion and the translation tool then was only prepared for po files. It looks like Pootle doesn't translate templates files also. Please find the scripts bin/templ2pot.py and bin/po2templ.py from http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Emailman-coders/mailman/3.0/files and have a look. Your feedback is appreciated. -- Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi(a)is.kochi-u.ac.jp http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/

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pootle.metalab.unc.edu maintenance reboot
by Cristóbal Palmer 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

pootle.metalab needs a new kernel and will be going down for a reboot in one hour (shortly after 22:00 EDT). Pootle should be unavailable for less than 10 minutes total. If in the future people would like/need more lead time before such an outage, please let me know. Cheers, -- Cristóbal Palmer ibiblio.org systems administrator

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Donate to GNU Mailman!
by Barry Warsaw 06 Jul '08

06 Jul '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm very pleased to announce that you can now donate to the GNU Mailman project! https://www.fsf.org/donate/directed-donations/gnumailman/ The Free Software Foundation has established a directed donation fund for GNU Mailman. Most of your donation goes directly to GNU Mailman, with a small percentage going to help the FSF. You can now support both great organizations with one donation. As quoted on the donation page: "Your donation will be used to obtain equipment, services, development resources and other support for the GNU Mailman project. All expenditures will be approved by a committee chosen from core GNU Mailman maintainers, and will be fully disclosed on the main GNU Mailman website." Currently myself, Mark Sapiro and Terri Oda are serving as members of the informal Mailman Steering Committee. I'd like to thank Peter Brown at the FSF for help getting this set up over there. I'd also like to thank Jeff Marshall and Jeff Breidenbach from the Mail-Archive.com for their initial generous donation. As part of this kick-start, Mailman 3 will make it possible to easily archive your public mailing lists at www.mail-archive.com, including a permalink in the footer of all messages. More details on the donation program are available on the wiki: http://wiki.list.org/x/R4BJ Feel free to comment on that page with any questions, and we'll make sure to update the page with any additional information. Please consider supporting both GNU Mailman and the FSF with your donation. We thank you. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkhw6k0ACgkQ2YZpQepbvXEo8ACffJq3QNTmNIDIR8Fa6x8e+sjT 2egAnArei7fdCEsIjNjcW7utRs6KHHCc =6VAj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Updated message catalogs needed for Mailman 2.1.10
by Mark Sapiro 06 Jul '08

06 Jul '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If you are a language champion or otherwise responsible for a Mailman translation, please get the updated 2.1.10 message catalog for your language to me as soon as possible. Mailman 2.1.10 has been in beta for 3 months now, and I have received very few updated translations. I am planning to release what I hope will be the final beta release of 2.1.10 in a few days. This would be a release candidate rather than a beta if I had more updated translations. Thank you for your understanding. - -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFH0xyZVVuXXpU7hpMRAo1aAKDYiS/wpexcQJqNPi+d0GLK6o2x0gCfTo/Z 24bhI96yktpfx97nDC3XH48= =PH4r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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UTF-8 and PO files
by Clytie Siddall 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Hi everyone :) While setting up Pootle with the Mailman PO files, we noticed that a few long-standing translations are still using non-UTF-8 formats. (Most likely, UTF-8 was not available when that translation originated.) While that is entirely up to you, we encourage you to convert your PO file(s) to UTF-8. This is the standard for FLOSS translation, and will avoid problems with tools which _assume_ UTF-8. Fortunately, Pootle does not, but some of the newer tools do. So it could save you hassles later on. UTF-8 is the superset of language encodings. It makes more sense for us all to be using it together. :) from Clytie Vietnamese Free Software Translation Team http://vnoss.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=projects:l10n

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Re: [Mailman-i18n] Using Pootle
by Cristóbal Palmer 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 05:02:34PM +0000, "Sveinn í Felli (IMAP)" wrote: > Hi there: > > Dov Zamir wrote: <snip /> >> I'd be happy to add my 2 cents, but I really have no idea what this >> means :-( > > Well, I don't really know the meaning excact of this string, but in > headers of hebrew KDE.po files there's often the following line: > > "Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);\n" > > Best is to check with other translation groups (KDE, GNOME, GNU or > whatever) or contact academic/linguistic specialists. > Well, using that as a base, I'm sure we can adjust if there's a problem. Once I added Hebrew as a language option from the pootle interface, it picked up what was on disk right away: http://pootle.metalab.unc.edu/he/mailman/LC_MESSAGES/? Any other languages missing? Cheers, -- Cristóbal Palmer ibiblio.org systems administrator

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Re: [Mailman-i18n] [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.11 final has been released.
by Barry Warsaw 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 1, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Hank van Cleef wrote: > I'm also concerned about this proposed scheme to discontinue montnly > mailings. It most definitely needs some mechanism whereby a user can > reset or re-obtain their password without moderator intervention. Our > user base is just plain not password-savvy, and I'm concerned about > the increase in moderator workload if the recovery method is similar > to password resetting by root (the Unix method). Don't worry, going forward we'll have a fairly typical password reset feature instead of the monthly reminder. The other advantage of this is that we won't have to keep user passwords in our database unencrypted. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkhqfiIACgkQ2YZpQepbvXGgOACgphaPDxMRZ1E3bSO+NVVTqHxM 8ogAoKD9V1hQ18ZkTlHsAb0X7Ky5YVEr =cYvr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Mailman 2.1.11 final has been released.
by Mark Sapiro 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am happy to announce the final release of the Mailman 2.1.11. Mailman 2.1.11 is a cleanup of a few problems found since the release of Mailman 2.1.10. It fixes the issue of shunted email subscribe requests and a few minor issues. It updates the contrib/mmdsr script for some 2.1.10 and 2.1.11 log and error messages, and it adds a new cron to cull and optionally archive old entries in the 'bad' and 'shunt' queues. Mailman 2.1.11 has updates to several i18n translations. A few bounce log messages now have the list name prepended. There is a new Defaults.py|mm_cfg.py setting ACCEPTABLE_LISTNAME_CHARACTERS with default value '[-+_.=a-z0-9]'. This Python regular expression character class specifies the characters allowed in list names. The motivation for this is the fact that previously, a list named, e.g., xxx&yyy could be created and MTA aliases generated that would cause the MTA to execute yyy as a command. There is a possible security issue here, but it is not believed to be exploitable in any meaningful way. If anyone is concerned about the security issue and not ready to upgrade, the mailman-2.1.11-listname-patch file contains a patch that can be applied to Mailman 2.1.9 or 2.1.10 to add this feature. See the release notes at <http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=103&release_id=605074> for more details. Mailman is free software for managing email mailing lists and e-newsletters. Mailman is used for all the python.org and SourceForge.net mailing lists, as well as at hundreds of other sites. For more information, including download links, please see: http://www.list.org http://mailman.sf.net http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman Files in this release are: mailman-2.1.11.tgz <- The full release tarball mailman-2.1.11.tgz.sig <- GPG signature for the tarball mailman-2.1.11-listname.patch <- Patch to add new listname ~ validation to 2.1.9 or 2.1.10. ~ This patch is only applicable to ~ the older releases. mailman-2.1.11-listname.patch.sig <- GPG signature for the patch - -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFIaTDdVVuXXpU7hpMRApGpAKDXM56DmmpBY28+X6pN2sDpyyZltACgr3wm ePBR1weSHPYd1ViPCTc/L8o= =bV1I -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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