On 8 February 2011 14:36, Francis Tyers <fty...@prompsit.com> wrote: > I like the idea in general. > > It gives more motivation for one. "I've done a bit of a dictionary, woo > I can get into incubator". But to get from incubator to trunk is a lot > of work. And if I stay in incubator i've not accomplished much. But if I > have a mostly working translator, but not quite enough coverage to > release then I can put it in staging and say "hey guys, this mostly > works, just needs some work". > > Here are the pairs I would move to staging now: > > apertium-af-nl, -- basically ready to go, but there are probably some > easy errors that could be fixed if we look > carefully at the evaluation. > apertium-ca-sc, -- needs linguistic revision of Sardinian, > and better coverage, but otherwise testvoc > clean and ready to go. > apertium-es-an, -- huge improvement in coverage and linguistic quality > over the last version, just needs to be testvoqued. > apertium-fr-pt, -- ready to go, testvoqued, but needs corpus test, > and probably some rule fixes. > apertium-pl-cs, -- mostly testvoqued in the direction cs->pl, but > needs extensive work on disambiguation before > it becomes useful, also improved coverage. > apertium-sme-nob - not possible to testvoc, but some minor corpus > errors remain. > > I'm not sure I like the idea of alpha/pre-releases though. If someone > wants a development version, they can use the SVN. >
That's the problem, though. If we want feedback, saying 'get it from SVN' really reduces the amount of people who /can/ give us feedback. > To be eligible for inclusion I would say that aside from the 'PROBLEMS' > file, it should also include an preliminary evaluation of translation > quality (af-nl, ca-sc, pl-cs, sme-nob) have this. IMO, that defeats the purpose. It would make sense to have this restriction on 'alpha' releases, though. The primary motivation I had in proposing this was that we have a current need to distinguish between the modules that can be checked out, built, and which can provide a basic word to word translation (i.e., which a newcomer can add vocabulary to and expect to see that vocabulary translate in some manner, regardless of correctness), and those that can't. I don't want to go quite to that extreme, but there should be a happy medium between that extreme and yours. -- <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list Apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
