Re: Complete Report: Terminology, Wordlist...

["Youcef Rabah Rahal" <yrrahal42 at hotmail dot com>]

Salam there,

I wonder why we are all going round and round in circles, with no progress 
at all... And I don't see any point in having a passionate debate. I would 
like to give a few suggestions that I think may contribute to unveil a 
correct solution about this issue:

1- Let's for now continue to work on each project separetly. Hafid,  I 
remember that you've been asked by Mohammed Elzubeir wether you wanted to 
take over the KDE coordinator job. What was your answer ? I believe that 
your contribution is crucial.

2- In the background, I suggest a creation of a 'Quality Control Comittee'. 
I suggest that the actual translation coordinators and a few others should 
constitue that commitee. Namely: Ahmad (Al-Rasheedan), Ahmad (Twaijri), 
Arafat (Medini), Hafid (or Mohammed Elzubeir ?), Munzir, Ossama, one or two 
core-ites, and everyone I forgot ;) [I personally would like to be in it].

3- Nadim made a proposition to create a 'Technical Wordlist'. I think the 
list should constitute all the technical terms for the existing GNOME, KDE 
POs and whatever else.

4- The commitee should go on that list word by word (details of the 
procedure to be fixed later, Ossama has already given a few points of what 
should be discussed) and agrees on a translation. The agreement could be 
done by vote or something else. But in case an agreement can't be reached on 
a translation, I don't see any problem in having two or more translations 
per word.

5a- Translation coordinators are responsible to apply the committee 
directives inside their projects. Well, that should be rather easy, since 
the coordinators are supposed to be in the comittee ;) This means that if 
the 'Technical Wordlist' contains three translations of one word, there 
should be no other translation in the POs of it except those three (the KDE 
POs contain one hundred translations per word now ;)

5b- The coordinators are free to use any translation as long as it is in the 
'Technical Wordlist'. But if Word1 has Translation1, Translation2, 
Translation3 in the wordlist, and a coordinator 'likes' Translation2, then 
it is preferable that all the POs of that project contain only Translation2.

I hope this makes sense. I believe that we should quickly start to look into 
points 1, 2 and 3. As suggested by Ossama, maybe we should fix a meeting to 
discuss how to proceed.

If the idea is fine, I ask kindly (;-) the people who I named explictely to 
give their agreement or not to sit in that 'commitee'. But I sure have 
forgotten some people, so please give your opinion too ;)

Salam,

Youcef.

PS: Please, this is an open discussion. There is no point of telling 'I want 
to leave', 'I may have left' or something of this kind ;)

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