Re: [i18n] 10.1 contributions, VIP accounts, and New Year

[Youcef Rabah Rahal <y dot rahal at gmail dot com>]

Hi & Happy New Year :-)

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:17:28 +0100, Pablo Saratxaga
<pablo at mandrakesoft dot com> wrote:
> Kaixo!
> 
> Here I am back; I wish you all a happy 2005.
> 
> For those of you that contributed with translations for the 10.1
> realsea, frist of all I apologize for the long delay in giving
> the VIP Mandrakeclub accounts; it should be fixed now, and you
> should have received an email telling about it, and telling
> your account id and password for the new created ones.
> 
> In case you didn't get such notice, please contact me.

I'm not sure the Arabic translators did receive those notifications.
Are the notifications based on the names in the PO headers? In that
case, everyone who contributed to the Arabic translation should be in
those headers.

Regards,

> In particular we have been unable to reach 3 persons:
>  Fabian Mandelbaum (full mailbox)
>  Mirko Tebaldi (full mailbox)
>  Tiago da Cruz Bezerra (unknown address)
> please could you contact us.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Here is for info some statistics about the 10.1 translations
> (we hope the 10.2 will be even better):
> 
> - translations existed (at least one *.po file) for 71 different
>   languages
> - 20 languages teams have been able to keep their translations very near
>   to the 100% all the time, despite the various changes to translatable
>   strings that happenned during the early developpement of the mdk 10.1;
>   congratulations to them:
>   ar bs ca cs cy da es et fa fi fr it hi nb pl pt ru sk uk zh_CN
> - 7 languages are well supported in 10.1 and under 90% in 10.0:
>   de, eu, tg, vi, nl, ja, sv
> - and 2 language teams, while they didn't reach a good level
>   yet, have done a very impressive advance, coming from nearly nowhere (less
>   than 5% or orphaned) to about 20%-30% or more, continue that path!
>   I hope your example will stimulate other teams.
>   bn fur
> 
> In total, 28 languages were very well supported, the evolution of 54 languages
> was good, as they increased the level of translations; 0 languages
> stagnated, and the 17 remaining ones had a bad evolution, decreasing
> in the classification.
> 
> The mean percentage was 69% (71% not counting new languages),
>         it was 70% for mdk 10.0, 73% for mdk 9.2,
>         71% for mdk 9.1 and 60% for mdk 9.0
> The number of very well supported languages was 28, it was 22 in mdk 10.0,
>         28 in mdk 9.2, 23 in mdk 9.1, and 11 in mdk 9.0
> The total number of languages was 71, it was 67 in mdk 10.0, 63 in mdk 9.2,
>         57 in mdk 9.1, and 56 in mdk 9.0
> New languages were: Kyrgyz, Furlan, Amharic, Sardinian.
> 
> --
> Ki ça vos våye bén,
> Pablo Saratxaga
> 
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> 
> 
> 

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Youcef R. Rahal