Rafaella Braconi schrieb:
If during the time November 2008 and October 2009, you, your team has reached any major milestone or anything that you feel it's important to mention, please send a short email indicating language or teams involved and a short description of what you have achieved.
There have no "big bang" achievemnts for the Germanophone team within the last year - at least if you just look at the results.
"Internally" we have done a lot to stabilize our translation process - with success. We used to do our translations based on the XLIFF standard file format for several years. Unfortunately this became a problem, when we were froced to use pootle as repository / portal - and only po-files were available. This caused several changes in our process (e.g. we had about 10 connversion steps between .po and xliff - and back). Due to this we were not able to provide 100% Help translation for OOo 3.0 (thanks to Sun, the rest was done by an external vendor).
A year ago, we switched our pootle repository from .po to .xliff - reducing conversions down to ~5. During the last 12 months we improved (or asked other people to improve) involved tools, so that we can now directly work with XLIFF files in pootle and our offline editors without any conversion steps (thanks to the pootle admins at Sun and the team at translate.za). So now we have a quite smooth and stable translation process (and we are on par with the po-based process .. if not better ;) ). Visible result is, that we have no problem to deliver 100% localizations anymore.
The second achievement might also be labeled with "stabilized translation process". Although the size of our translation team did not change (we work with 3 to 4 voulnteer translators and 2 reviewers / coordinators), the composition of the team changed (some people left, some came in, others changed role). I'm happy to say, that these changs in the team did not have negative impact on the process (imo one of the key points in open source project - to keep a process stable, even if the team changes).
Speaking about stabilization for the last year - next year will be the year of visible improvements ;)
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