Lowering the participation barrier for Fedora Docs

[Eric H. Christensen]

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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 09:46:40AM -0500, John J. McDonough wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 05:13 -0800, Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
> The translators have a wide variety of tools to use when actually doing
> the translation.  I don't see any evidence of "peer review" but given
> the range of tools I suspect it is possible.

The latest version of Transifex (Tx) supports peer review and some language teams are using that feature.

> > Does Transifex allow for markups and for peer review?  Can I do that
> > review using Transifex while commuting on the subway?  Does it show me
> > the markup changes with comments alongside?  I did not see that
> > "markup and peer review" are part of Transifex functionality.   
> 
> Again, there are many, many tools available to translators.  I believe
> the model is for the translator to download a file from Tx to work on,
> so clearly much of the work can be done offline.

It's part of Transifex.  Once the POT files get uploaded into Transifex lots of things are possible.

> > I am not belittling Transifex. It is a good tool for its purposes.
> > But it is not ubiquitous,  Libreoffice is.  (Actually I use Kingsoft
> > Linux free version, It is software from China. Looks and feels like MS
> > office). 
> 
> Libre Office does not do a good job with the large documents we tend to
> produce.  It is virtually impossible to maintain consistency across
> documents, and it works very poorly when you have multiple writers.  It
> is a totally different category of tool.

LibreOffice (read that, *any* "office" software) is horrible for what we are doing.  Our tools are far superior to what any office product can give us.

> Think of Libre Office as the Chevy, and Publican as the Mack truck.
> Different tool for a different job.  Sure, I could haul 100 tons of
> oranges in my Chevy in a bunch of trips, but it is way easier with the
> right tool.  And like the Mack truck, Publican is a bit harder to learn
> than the Chevy.  (Well, I would dispute that actually.  it's just that a
> lot of folks already know how to use Libre Office, but I think it is
> really quite a bit harder.)

Great analogy.  If you are doing little projects then an office product is probably okay.  I honestly can't tell you the last time I opened up an office word processor, though.  I simply never use it unless someone sends me an ODT.  What we're doing in Fedora is in a completely different league.

- -- Eric

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Eric "Sparks" Christensen
Fedora Project

sparks at fedoraproject.org - sparks at redhat.com
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