Para quienes no leen la lista general, les paso lo que se esta
comentando sobre gnome-packagekit.
En mi opinión, estoy totalmente de acuerdo con Stanislav, no tiene
sentido duplicar esfuerzos.
Si alguien esta interesado en ayudar traduciendo este archivo, lo
mejor sería hacerlo en GNOME y no mantener una versión propia.
Un saludo.
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From: Stanislav Brabec
Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:03 AM
Subject: Re: [opensuse-translation] gnome-packagekit (Re:
opensuseupdater-gnome: openSUSE 11.0 - POT file update wanted)
To: Gabriel
Cc: OS-trans , Mauro Parra-Miranda
, Gary Ekker , Michael Wolf
, Karl Eichwalder
You don't need my magic, if you want to start with translation of actual
version. My magic is useful for merging upstream translation from the
latest version to the old version we have in released products.
My tool does not yet support pushing strings back to upstream, however
it's planned feature.
Even if will, translation in two places creates a lot of additional
work-flow problems:
- Needs remerge
- Does not provent duplicated work
- Need handling of each conflict in translation that can happen, if two
translators did the work in parallel. Person performing the merge
cannot give answer, not knowing all languages.
* Is it only simple difference and both translations are correct?
* Is it a typo fix on Novell side?
* Is it a typo fix on upstream side?
* Is it a typo introduced by Novell?
* Is it a typo introduced by upstream?
* Is it a conflict in translator's opinion?
There is no algorithm to decide, which of the conflicting translations
is correct.
Not providing translation back is a bad approach of Ubuntu, which
duplicates the translation effort.
I am not a person organizing translations. I am only a package
maintainer, who did some voluntary translation in past.
But from my aspect of view, it would be simplest to translate directly
in upstream.
Upstream strictly requires conforming to national translation
conventions and a responsive contact person. If translators don't want
to (can't) use SVN directly (and ask for commit permission to GNOME
SVN), then they may use SVN submit contact person in Novell, who knows
SVN and who will submit translations back. Keeping contact person e-mail
is mandatory.
I can imagine even a very simple automatic tool, which will extract
translation from the Novell database, verify the translation by gettext
tools and merge it back to upstream as soon as possible, and another
tool, which will extract upstream translation and put to Novell
database.
Simple authorized web page for translators:
Fetch upstream translation Check and commit to upstream
Merging bad translations back to upstream without providing any contact
person for the fix is even worse than forking them:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2007-September/msg00254.html
Best Regards / S pozdravem,
Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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