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Re: [RANT] French translation for debconf templates stucked at 90% : analysis



On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Matthew Palmer wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 01:05:13PM +0200, Nicolas Bertolissio wrote:
> > Le dimanche 27 juin 2004, Marco d'Itri ?crit :
> > > On Jun 27, Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > >  Some of you guys take care of them...and after a few days upload a new
> > > >  version with the updated templates. Thanks to you, you're by chance
> > > >  the majority.
> > > I do not think this is a good thing. Packages with updated templates
> > > should be uploaded in time for the release, but IMO doing a new upload
> > > only because of the translations wastes bandwith and buildds time.
> >
> > This is because you do this the wrong way, you should ask translators
> > from your templates to update their translations _before_ uploading,
> > this can be done winthin 3 / 4 days with translation being proofread by
> > the translation team.
>
> If I've got twelve languages translated in my package (not that I do, I
> think I've maxed two, I just picked the number at semi-random), it starts to
> get rather annoying to look in twelve .po files for the Language-Team and
> send the new version of my POT (and, if I recall correctly, the old .po) to
> them all.  A script (maybe in devscripts or something), well-publicised (ie
> mentioning it prominently in the initial bug report e-mails), which will do
> this work automatically, would encourage maintainers to report updated
> translations.

I think you shouldn't only mail the teams that already have a translation,
IMO you should mail debian-i18n to ask for new translations and
translation updates. That way the translator teams also know they don't
translate the file to sit a long time in BTS.

Some may think this is suboptimal, but for teams with less translations it
may be a good way to prioritize the huge list...

Just my 2c

Luk



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