[Fedora-trans-ar] Web-based Arabic Translation

Munzir Taha munzirtaha at gmail.com
Fri Nov 11 13:04:12 UTC 2005


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في يوم السّبت 26 رمضان 1426 18:28, كتب Mohammad Ghoniem:
> Assalأ¢mu `alaykom

> I am not an advocate of reinventing the wheel. IF the existing tools are
> doing the job, or the features they lack can be added easily, I would
> not support writing "yet another tool". This is as far as theory goes.
> Now in pratice, I could not find a decent documentation saying what
> pootle does or does not, for instance. I subscribed as a translator at
> http://pootle.wordforge.org/ and had a glimpse of the interface : as far
> as I remember many features can be added / improved. What about the
> other tools ? Can someone audit them ?

Ok I will begin this job of comparing the tools. It's granted that each tool 
would have a feature that's not on the others. Do you want me to look for 
specific features?

> In short, we need three things :
> 1- assess the capabilities of existing tools,

Will do this.

> 2- write specs for our own tool if we reach the conclusion that a new
> tool is needed, (I have been asking for specs for some time now)
> 3- make sure that redhat is not developping its own tool in parallel, as
> I have seen discussions in this regard

Sherif?

> Unfortunately, I won't be able to be more helpful in the next three
> weeks. Al-Barakah Fأ®kom ;-)

I hope by the end of these three weeks I can answer all your questions 
regarding the comparison between these softwares.

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Munzir Taha
Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer
Maintainer of Fedora Arabic Translation Project
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-trans-ar
Maintainer of the OpenBugs project page at
http://www.arabic-fedora.org/munzir/OpenBugs.html
Master CIW Designer, ICDL, MOUS, Linux+, LPI 101
New Horizons CLC, Riyadh, SA
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