Hi Rafaella,
Comments inline.
Rafaella Braconi wrote:
Hi Bert,
Bert Meersma wrote On 10/15/05 20:12,:
Hi Rafaella, and all others,
We did a quick scan of the latest version of the help. Unfortunately
we found a lot of pages that are still in English.
Yes, most fixes we integrated into the build refer to the UI. For the
Help, Alpha is translating a quite large volume of Help files which
they will deliver to us next week. Only after Alpha's delivery, I will
again be able to provide you with a build, and this time it should
contain full translated Help.
Since Alpha is still translating a large portion of the files it doesn't
make much sense to me to start reviewing now. We would encounter a lot
of issues, that were probably solved already by Alpha. It also wouldn't
make sense if Ian started fixing the issues in the current build when
there will be an update from Alpha.
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Until now, there are 3 people (including me) who volunteered to
review the help. With only these 3 persons it would take quite a
while before the work is finished. Is there anything you can do about
this?
How much time have you scheduled for review? If I can make a
suggestion, I would not review all the help .... You could decide for
example to perform 10% spot review accross the Help files. Usually
with 10% review you find the most common mistakes (which for example
need to be fixed accross the whole Help or at least in that particular
module) such as grammar, spelling, terminology and in order to scope
the most common ones it is not necessary to perform a 100% review on
all files.
We didn't really schedule time for it, but the way it looks now it would
take months. Reviewing only 10% would also not be satifactory. But I'm
confident that once Alpha has finished translating and we get a build
that has a fully translated set of help files we could review it in a
couple of weeks (days perhaps).
I was already under the impression that Alpha had already finished and
that the build we got had the fully translated help files. Apparently
this not the case, so that's what all this is about.
Also, in order to track all this valuable feedback you are gathering
during review, I would encourage you to use the QA form spreadsheet we
successfully used with other N-L Communities which performed review.
Can you tell me where this spreadsheet is? And what the procedure is in
using this spreadsheet? And another thing is that I had a discussion
with Petr and Ian about the way we should create issues. I suggested the
use of a spreadsheet in the first place, but it was dismissed. So do
Petr and Ian know about this QA spreadsheet?
Let me know if this is something you would like to try and I can
provide the QA form templates, etc.
If we're going to wait for Alpha to finish the translation I think we
have some time to look into this. But I must say that I'm getting a
little confused by all the systems and procedures (or the lack thereof).
What is the relation between TCM and the QA forms you're referring to
here? Let's say that if we were going to use TCM, would we still need to
use the QA forms?
Kind regards,
Bert Meersma
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