Hi,
On wed mar 05 2003 at 00:37 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 05:35:24PM +0100, Pierre Machard wrote:
> > Why not having translation coordinators who will manage packages
> > translations ? Since we already have coordinators for the translation
> > of the website.
>
> Agreed. That's the way it should be. Matter of fact, it's the way
> it's being handled in the DDP manpages area (check the CVS, manpages
> translated for Debian software in several languages there). It might be
> slow and it might not be as peer 2 peer as the DDTP is.
Why not use the DDTP in order to keep profit of a peer 2 peer work and
then having coordinators for each lang who gather files from the DDTP
and add them into l10n-packages ?
So that, by clearly having coordinators we could also more easily track
l10n-related bugs.
> However, there is a
> review done for ever single manpage and it's done by the whole i18n group
> (at least we do it in the spanish translation team)
>
> This not only ensures accurate translations, but consistency
> between manpages of different programs (but which have related features or
> concepts).
Ok course this is a very important point.
> IMHO that's the way to go, probably some automation is needed yet
> to streamline the process, but eventually it will get there.
I agree.
Cheers,
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Pierre Machard
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