On 30-07-2020 20:07, Alexey Kovyazin wrote:
And if the Firebird 2.5 translation is any indication, translating it
will require a ton of effort afterwards to make it presentable. I'd
rather spent time and effort to write it myself (maybe with some
inspiration and copy/google-translate/paste/edit from the Russian
version).
I think the translator's adoption for the Firebird peculiarities greatly
increased since LR 2.5 - after that he did translation of Developer
Guide, which is much better.
Do you think we should ask agency to translate some difficult part of
LR3.0 or 4.0 and estimate the results?
No. My main issue isn't with translation itself, it is that the
documentation should be written, in English, by the project.
And yes, we don't have a good track record at doing that, but the status
quo is simply not good if we have to do funding drives every few years
to translate the Russian documentation to English, which inevitably gets
delayed because of editing, etc, reinforcing the bad reputation that
Firebird has because of the state of its documentation.
I'd rather work on catching up and then keeping up during development,
especially as a large part of the work will already be done to write the
release notes anyway.
Mark
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Mark Rotteveel
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