On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Donald Whytock <dwhyt...@apache.org> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > >> http://www.italovignoli.org/2014/02/language-support-of-office-suites/ >> >> Don't you love it when they come up with these false comparisons? >> >> If you look a little bit closer you see that they are releasing and >> counting languages where the UI is only 15% translated. So yes, if >> you are willing to release incomplete work then you can claim to >> "support" more languages. But what kind of support is this? >> >> A specific example: Tartar (15% UI translated) >> >> I thought OOo had a requirement for 80% completion before releasing a >> translation. With AOO we made the requirement be 100%. LO releases >> 15% complete UI translations ?! >> >> Of course, we shouldn't judge their release criteria. That is their >> business (and their users) not ours. But when they make false >> comparisons in a table, comparing apples-to-oranges, then we ought to >> note it. It is not fair to claim lower standards are the same as >> greater results. >> >> Another example: They've released Hebrew support at 90% complete. We >> have Hebrew support at 96% complete, but we have not released it yet. >> >> Another example: Our Icelandic translation (unreleased) is 95% >> complete. Theirs (released) is only 88%. >> >> Another example: We have 36 languages at 100% complete UI >> translation. LO has only 13. >> >> Look at the data and make your own comparisons: >> >> https://translate.apache.org/projects/aoo40/ >> >> https://translations.documentfoundation.org/projects/libo_ui/ > > > More recently posted on the blog by the author: > > "italovignoli February 19, 2014 at 2:12 > am<http://www.italovignoli.org/2014/02/language-support-of-office-suites/#comment-6950> > Although the comparison was between LibreOffice and Microsoft Office, I > have updated the table to reflect the situation at AOO provided by that > project." > > In all fairness, even if they're not complete, it's still an impressive > list of languages LO is claiming. >
The point that we also have an impressive list of incomplete translations as well: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trunk/extras/l10n/source/ The main difference is that we don't release incomplete translations, while LO does. -Rob > Don --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
