Re: Proofreader for .ru translation needed
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 07:38:38AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting bd@bc-bd.org (bd@bc-bd.org):
> > Hi,
> >
> > Алекс <davian818@gmail.com> created an updated ru.po [1] for a package I maintain,
> > namely revelation [2].
> >
> > Since I don't speak Russian I'd like to ask someone who does to proofread it and
> > send me some feedback.
>
> Hello Stefan,
Hi Christian,
> Indeed, there is a chance that someone volunteers for this. After all,
> we have a fairly active team for Russian localization.
>
> However, I'd like to raise a concern wrt your message: the common
> practice in l10n is often leaving confidence to people who propose a
> translation for a given language and assume that the translation is of
> decent quality enough for being included without prior check.
>
> I understand this may look as opposite to a tradition of quality we
> have in softare development, but that's indeed a realistic point of
> view: resources in l10n are often scarce (work not very highly
> rewarding, many languages,e tc.)....so it may sound somehow
> discouraging to potential translators that their work has to be
> "reviewed" before being included.
>
> Confidence in translators' work has been of of the grounds that made
> software l10n still happen so I would advise always balancing between
> a research of quality and getting your software widely localized.
>
> This is certainly a debatable point. After all, low quality
> translation is also sometimes deserving the localization work (I'm for
> instance thinking about recurrent debates, here, afout low quality
> l10n and I even sometimes myself rant about low quality l10n in my own
> language).
>
> My advice would be, finally: if someone volunteers to at least have a
> look at this l10n work, that's great. If nobody does, either include
> the translation work...or make another attempt in
> debian-l10n-russian. But, at the end, if really nobody wants to review
> the translation, maybe include it anyway.
thanks for the inside info.
To be honest I haven't really thought about what to do if nobody answered, but I
already have one reply from Yuri Kozlov. I guess I would not have held the
change back ...
Regarding the what you call realistic view on things, maybe you (as l10n/i18n)
would want to put this somewhere prominent?
The reason why I wrote the mail in the first place, is that I easily found these
pages:
http://www.debian.org/international/l10n/
http://i18n.debian.net/wiki/
http://wiki.debian.org/I18n
However those pages look like landing pages for people already familiar with the
whole effort.
I guess what I am sayng is, I was looking for an FAQ and found none. Maybe I did
not look hard enough though.
If there is an FAQ, how about linking to it from the New Maintainer Guide? And
putting it on those pages above?
Regards,
Stefan
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