Flammie Flammie Pirinen Flammie is Gentoo’s Finnish translator, fora translator, fora moderator and (kind of) sci-linguistics maintainer. This page describes shortly Flammie’s work on Gentoo and links to documentation of interest for potential Finnish translation contributors, ad some links to other resources. 0.4 2007-05-27 About Flammie
Contact information This page is available in English and in Finnish. This page should use content negotiation, which automatically selects the version indicated in browser preferences, but unfortunately Gentoo infra does not often find time or will to configure apache properly (see gentoo bug 92372) so you will need to just use those links.

Here’s a short list of contact methods:

  • flammie@gentoo.org via email
  • Flammie@IRCNet, Flammie@Freenode via irc.
  • UIN# 27204357 via ICQ.
  • ffFlammie via AIM.

The list is in order of preference somewhat. You will find that mail is best way to get certain response. Messages sent via IRC might at times get missed, and other IM’s are unreliable in general.

My Portage overlays (i.e. experimental package repositories)
Finnish overlay

I maintain package repository for Gentoo called Finnish overlay. It contains Finnish spell checking, speech synthesis and stuff.

Linguistics overlay

This is a set of packages I use a lot in my studies and research at university. As of December 2007 they are part of Science overlay. There is an obsolete-ish page about the “project” in my webspace here: Linguistics packages for Gentoo.

Helping with translations
Participating in gentoo-doc-fi This English outline of the process is provided only for short information, the full process can be found from Finnish version of this page, as it is expected that everyone participating Finnish translations are fluent Finnish speakers.

If you are translating:

  • Check that you aren’t duplicating the work
  • Download XML sources from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/document-name.xml?passthru=1
    • If it’s a handbook document, it’s easier to use http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi
  • Notify gentoo-doc-fi@gentoo.org mailing list about translation you are going to make.
  • Translate English text in xml file you downloaded to Finnish!
  • After translation, sleep a night, reread translation, and fix all the problems.
  • xmllint --valid --noout dokumentti.xml, fix problems.
  • Create a new bug in bugzilla.
  • Participate in discussion you initiate about the new translation on gentoo-doc-fi@gentoo.org.
  • Document will be added to CVS!

If you want to aid in QA process:

  • Join gentoo-doc-fi@gentoo.org.
  • Answer emails coming to list by suggesting changes to new translations.
  • You can also suggest old documents to be fixed.
Resources

If you wish to participate in Finnish translations, ther is a page describing translation style in Finnish. It focuses around some decisions made in Gentoo documentation’s Finnish translations, such as: how to translate program names and paths, different lists and tables, format of headers and so on.

Also, if you are interested in aiding in Finnish translations, you will want to know all about how things are done with Gentoo documentations, for that, browse through Gentoo developers’ documentation and specifically Documentation project specific part of project docs.

Announcing translations and handling feedback is done on mailing list gentoo-doc-fi@gentoo.org. Finished translations must also be uploaded to Gentoo’s bugzilla, prefarably using a bug report template I have made. It is also advisable for translators to keep their work up-to-date with original version, this can be easily done using gentoo-doc-cvs@gentoo.org mailing list, where all the changes to English docs are supposedly announced.

If you don’t know how to subscribe to a mailing list, please read the instructions on Gentoo's mailing list page .