Translations of this document

Fully translated versions of this document to German and Italien are available. Incomplete translations for Norwegian Bokmål, French, Spanish and Chinese exist, take a look for your language here.

HowTo translate this document

Translations of this document are kept in .po files like in many free software projects, read /usr/share/doc/debian-edu-doc/README.debian-edu-lenny-manual-translations for more information on this. Please read also read this, if you want to start/help translating this document.

To commit your translations you need to be a member of the alioth project debian-edu. To translate, you just need to check out some files from from svn (which can be done anonymously) and create patches. Please file a bug against the debian-edu-doc package and attach the .po file to the bugreport. Find some instructions on how to submit bugs here.

You can checkout the debian-edu-doc source anonymously with the following command (you need to have the subversion package installed for this to work):

Then edit the documentation/debian-edu-lenny/debian-edu-lenny-manual.$CC.po (where you replace $CC with your language code). There are many tools for translating available, we suggest to use kbabel.

Then you either commit the file directly to svn (if you have the rights to do so) or send the file to the bugreport.

To update your local copy of the repository use the following command inside the debian-edu-doc directory:

Read /usr/share/doc/debian-edu-doc/README.debian-edu-lenny-manual-translations to find information how to create a new .po file for your language if there is none yet, and how to update translations.

Basic information about Alioth (the host where our SVN repository is located) and SVN is available at http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Svn.

If you are new to SVN, look at the SVN book, it has a chapter on the basic workflow with SVN. Also you might want to look at he kdesvn package if you prefer a GUI client for SVN instead of using the commandline client.

Please report any problems.

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