Thanks for looking at this. A big +10 from my part. Please add get_books.po to Honey, is included by defaullt in all our images
Gonzalo On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Pootle, the Honey project has now grown to contain 68 Activities > (totalling 16,310 words in 6,442 strings) in 102 languages. > > http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/honey/ > > I would like to discuss breaking breaking Honey into at least two > sections. There are several reasons this would be desirable. > > 1) Refreshing each of these 102 languages from templates whenever any > Honey activity has a string change places a considerable burden on the > server resources and, in particular, on my time. They cannot be fired > off all at once as it is a drain on system resources and with some > frequency, a refresh will simply fail part of the way through, > requiring multiple passes to assure that all languages are updated to > their full complement of strings. This has become fairly > time-consuming manual maintenance process. > > 1) It would be desirable to gently focus L10n effort on the most used, > most valued, most downloaded, most educational, most (insert your > favorite adjective here) Activities first, before moving on to > Activities that although it is very much appreciated that the > developer has taken care to build in i18n, will just not have the same > impact in the classroom as some other activity. No offense meant, but > kids will use the Record activity long before they are looking for a > python debugger, both are important and valued, but I think it is > simply realistic to accept that one may have a higher a priority in a > localizer's workflow, given the limited L10n resources present in some > of our more exotic languages and the fact that we are adding new > languages all the time that are targeting specific deployment needs. > > Walter and I touched base on this briefly and he has taken a first > rough pass at his thinking on the subject. > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Translation_Team#Honey_reorganization > > No need to keep the discussion of the wiki page, the mailing list is > fine, but the proposal needed to be hung somewhere for viewing. > > Walter split the existing Honey into Honey and 'Maple Syrup" projects, > I am agnostic with respect to the nomenclature and do not want to > paint that particular bikeshed myself. I would raise the possibility > that perhaps one or two Honey Activities might have earned graduation > to Fructose, but again, I have no strong feelings on that. I am > really focused on the pragmatic issues of Pootle maintenance and L10n > prioritization without wishing to ruffle the feathers of any Activity > developers. > > Please provide any feedback, positive or otherwise so we can begin to > move to address the practical problems that exists in a manner > consistent with our commitment to openly discuss any such issues in a > productive manner. > > Warmest Regards, > > cjl > Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator > > P.S. While Etoys is also large, it only updates it's POT infrequently > and it all happens at once, so it does not present an issue comparable > to Honey's high rate of change on individual elements. > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >
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