On Thursday 19 December 2013 20:05:38 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Dijous, 19 de desembre de 2013, a les 09:05:22, Martin Graesslin va > > escriure: > > On Wednesday 18 December 2013 23:50:03 Eike Hein wrote: > > > Translations are always a bit 'risky' of course but I > > > think in the spirit of inclusiveness and internationality > > > they're a great idea. > > > > I'm very unsure whether translation is a good idea at all. It's too easy > > to > > change the meaning and just think about how carefully we worded everything > > to make the meaning quite clear. It's possible that a certain wording will > > get a different meaning in another language just because it's not possible > > to translate correctly. > > > > So overall from me a -1 for translations. If we want to do translations it > > has to be clear, that: > > * it's a translation which is not binding. The English version of the > > manifesto matters > > * we have very strong requirements on who is allowed to translate and a > > very strict peer review process for the translated document. > > Any reason why the manifesto translations should be more strict than say the > 4.12 announcement? I cannot judge the quality of the translations, given that the release announcements are not translated to any language I speak. But just a small point for the quality of translations: all German IT channels reported that 4.11 is the "last" release, because we wrote "latest" which is very close to "letzte" (German for last).
Cheers Martin
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