On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 10:09:08AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > [..] > > - 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, -- ------------------------------------------------------- | Mohammed Elzubeir | Visit us at: | | | http://www.arabeyes.org/ | | Arabeyes Project | Homepage: | | Unix the 'right' way | http://elzubeir.fakkir.net/ | -------------------------------------------------------
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