On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Karunakar <[email protected]> wrote:

> Now its not that we have to develop a new one from scratch, but find a way
> to manage the volume of translations and keep consistency across
> applications, now efforts like FUEL have targetted that, but still we have
> not got to completely applying it across all Hindi translations.

Alright. Let me re-iterate over what I see as aspects that need to be
thought over.

- infrastructure : does IndLinux actually have the time to invest in
resources around it. Putting up an infrastructure means ownership and,
the obvious downside to that is liability

- tooling : putting up a tool viz. Pootle to be an help allow
aggregation for language/locale/script makes IndLinux the downstream
of upstream projects for that specific language/locale/script.

- translation consistency : a very important aspect. I made that point
clear in my response to Christian as well. Most upstream projects
don't give enough importance in their timelines to ensure that.
However, a tool like Pootle isn't pretty much suited to a review aimed
at achieving some sort of consistency. Unless you merely aim to load
Pootle with the FUEL word-list and aim to use the translation memory
to do multiple runs over the specific language and all projects
underneath it.

Along the lines of the last point, for a while now, Kushal (Das) has
been maintaining a tool called translation filter (I may add, created
at the very urgent prodding by Runa) which has enabled Bengali to
maintain a high degree of consistency and, same-ness across the
projects and translation-ready objects. You may want to look at that
or, similar tools rather than hosting a translation interface.

Standardization follows consistency. You'd need to check for
consistency first and then standardize.

-- 
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog>

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