On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 10:09:08AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
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- Language teams have a habit of appearing *after* someone has
done the first 99% of the translations
That may be the case -- but it hasn't been in our experience. When we
first took over the Fedora translation, we had a total of 5 translated
strings out of 10664 [1]. Today, we stand at 89% [2], with the disputed
dist.po being the only file that is not at 100%. I am not sure what has
been sync'ed back to Fedora's CVS so far, but we have obviously
suspended translations until we figure out where we stand.
The second problem here is I suspect a cultural difference - while
the
Arabic translators may be used to trading essays with references a lot
of Westerners tend not to bother to read long things but like concise short
arguments.
I usually write short to-the-point posts, but I felt it was necessary
to give a background to those who are not familiar with Arabeyes' work,
in order to be able to appreciate the magnitude of the issue (to us).
Having read those long posts I do not see why the new translation
tools
are being blamed. They happened to come into existance at the same time
as the problem but that is all. The underlying problem appears to be
that there is a generally recognized project for Arabic translation and
Fedora doesn't currently reflect that - or other similar situations where
there is a clear project.
Right on target. The system was misunderstood (apparently by more than
just us).
[..]
Is the real solution in the case of translations with an established
team, actively translating Fedora simply to point all new signups
for Arabic to the Arabeyes project ? Or are there groups of Arabic
translators who have problems with the basis of Arabeyes ?
Another question would be, what can be done when there is another group of
translators objecting to the pre-existing one, which has been doing the
vast majority of the work?
References:
[1]
http://www.arabeyes.org/~elzubeir/fedora_begin_status.html
[2]
http://www.arabeyes.org/misc/fedora_status_bar.html
Regards,
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