Hi,
I am doing translations on Simplified Chinese, it's true that we cannot avoid
duplication of effort sometime. What's more important, many translators prefer
doing such work on platforms such us launchpad.net rather than just facing the
original po files, because they think using a web interface can be more
convenient and don't need to care about merging pot, check file format, etc.
But the problem is also there as everyone knows, it's difficult for translators
to control the quality because it's not easy to keep only specified persons
working on specified files in the same time up to now. So we cannot using the
files from it directly. Upstream translators have to review everything if
he/she wants to make them into our upstream translation. Since translating
GNOME is a huge project, that's not very easy to avoid all of the shortcomings:
duplication of effort, difficulty on quality assurance, wider participation on
upstream work. We have to lose some of them when we make any decision on means
of working.
Aron
On 2009-08-14,"Claude Paroz" wrote:
>Le mercredi 12 août 2009 à 22:19 -0600, Stormy Peters a écrit :
>
>> Collaboration among advisory board members: Now that we have a sys
>> admin team in place would like to find ways that we can collaborate
>> better. Mentioned an article by J5 that talked about that RH, Novell
>> and others are less involved because of the maintenance burden.They
>> spend time on money on things like translations. No process to get
>> them upstream and so they do it all over again next year.
>>
>> Ideas for collaborating between advisory board members:
>> 1. Translations.
>
>
>Hi Stormy,
>Thanks for this interesting report. I was a little surprised by the part
>about translation. Where are those translators ? Our i18n process is
>completely open, so I don't understand why they do not contribute
>upstream in the first place.
>Would be great to have more details about this issue.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Claude
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