Hello everyone, I coordinate the Lithuanian translation team, and as I understand, today is my turn to be the punching bag :)
Let me try to explain the situation. Tomas has been maintaining some GNOME translations, notably, GNOME Office translations, for quite a while now (several years at least). Recently, Žygimantas Beručka, a member of the Lithuanian team (and an ex-coordinator) updated the gnumeric translation and committed it. Žygimantas fixed translations of some terms (including "File", more on that later), and added some new translations. Since then, Tomas has been waging an all-out war on multiple fronts (including emails, a public webpage in English and in Lithuanian (!), and finally this complaint to gnome-i18n) and demanding to revert to his previous translation. I do not see any reason to discard Žygimantas's work just like that by reverting to a previous state. This is an unreasonable request; I don't think there's such a thing as a "translator's veto" for translation by another person. I have asked Tomas to instead report specific problems with the updated translation, but he did not respond to that request. As for the "File" translation dispute, it used to be a huge can of worms, the reason being that the Lithuanian Language commission approved three different translations for the word file (I place the blame on them, by the way, for not making a decision). And public bickering about this problem was in fact the reason why Žygimantas resigned from coordinatorship several years ago. Ironically, he got a lot of flak for pushing "Rinkmena," a more Lithuanian-sounding alternative translation for "File", into GNOME. Afterwards the decision was made to use "Failas" throughout GNOME, primarily for compatibility with other projects and with the then-new translation of Microsoft Windows. Currently GNOME uses "Failas" everywhere, and if there are places where a different variant remains, they're there only because we haven't got to them yet. I definitely do not want to revive this discussion. It has already burnt way, way too many brain cells and barrels of oil. Tomas, I think neither Žygimantas nor I are after credit for the gnumeric translation. If that's the problem, I'm sure it can be solved easily. Also, to my knowledge, nobody has claimed that your contributions are insignificant. It is true that Žygimantas and I could have been more cooperative with you as the original translator, but please accept that you have not been very cooperative either - to the point of asking to restrict our access! That's just rude. I see Tomas has posted an updated gnumeric translation on Vertimus. I will go through and merge any fixes in the coming days (could have done that instead of writing this letter, but oh well...). But again, the issue of the translation of "File" is not up for discussion. As for prioritizing translations, I find it an entirely reasonable practice. Thanks for bringing Orca to my attention, by the way. I had the impression that it was only a screen reader, and deprioritized it because there was no voice synthesis engine available for Lithuanian anyway. I just discovered that it does Braille too, among other things, and brltty has Lituanian (sic! somebody should fix that) support. I have removed the deprioritization notice. I hope this email settles most of the issues that have been raised. Best regards, -- Gintautas Miliauskas _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n