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Re: Do you have experiences using source code management in translation?



O Luns 02 Marzo 2009 19:25:32 Paul Menzel escribiu:
> So here is the reason of this message. How do translation teams of other
> languages handle this? Are there solutions using SCM or was that
> abandoned because it did not prove beneficial?

The contents of a file are strongly different from the point of view of a 
translator and the developer, and diff tools have been developed by and for 
source code. Nevertheless, a translation file has an internal structure that 
does not feet lines, as it is based upon Translation Units, that, as is well 
known, in the gettext world are made upon comments, flags, msgctxt, msgid, and 
msgstr.

If you are using a three stages quality system, namely:
translator.localise -=po-file=> secondperson.review -=feedback_info=> 
translator.revise => final po-file
then, you can use a "Translation review report" to send the feedback with the 
finds of the audit/review.
Please find enclosed a model (it's a draft for internal use at KDE's Galician 
tr project).
The idea is to comment at mail-list those "unfits", and put them into a "style-
guide" or "glossary", according to their nature.

Attachment: QA_review_report.ods
Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet


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