On 01/03/2014 01:18 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph wrote: > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Doug Smythies <dsmyth...@telus.net> wrote: >> However, I think item 7, translations and the overall workflow is >> the unknown at this time, and could be a major hurtle or even a >> show stopper. We need to estimate that part of the project for >> feasibility, person hours, and potential timeline for implementation. >> Myself, I would put a hold on items 1-6 for now. >> Myself, I do not know how to even start looking into item 7, but >> I'll help if possible. > > Huge +1 here. This is an LTS release and I'm not sure this is the best > time to take upon this major overhaul given the amount of time > involved and the uncertainty about translations. Translations are very > important, particularly in an LTS, and we do a great disservice to our > translations volunteers if we do this without a plan for them, or > otherwise abruptly change things for them. How ever we do this, it's > likely that all strings will be shown as modified and they'll have to > begin translations from scratch rather than just updating changed > strings. > > I'd feel much better doing this for 14.10, when it's a bit less > important to have a solid, translated documentation for release.
As we know, there is a chorus that goes up at every UDS that says we should change away from XML but no one ever did anything. I decided to push forward with this in order to i) see what would be involved and ii) provoke reactions from people. From what I can see I've achieved both goals. It would be great if a knowledgeable person from Translations could get in contact with me about the impact this transition would have for them. ~pmatulis -- ubuntu-translators mailing list ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators