Re: Fwd: [lintian] Translation of tag descriptions
On 2015-01-13 18:48, SB wrote:
> Hi Niels,
>
Hi,
>
> has this job been done in the meanwhile?
Not to my knowledge. There has been no activity on translations since then.
> I'd like to pick up the thread where I left it in April.
> I was quite disconnected from the project for some reasons for quite a long
> time, sorry.
Welcome back. :)
> I will not return to the German translation list, so I don't know if (German)
> translation of the lintian tag descriptions is "allowed" taking into
> consideration the community rules of discussing translations on the German
> translators' list.
>
To be honest, I have very little knowledge about how translators
organise their work or themselves. If you provide translations, I will
accept them in good faith and keep doing so until you stop/retire.
> But...
>
> [quoting your message of April, 13.]
> * Help translators getting started
> - Please review the "Translating Lintian" section of the top level
> README and help me improve to make it easier to get started.
> - Please, let me know what I forgot to document/mention that
> translators would like to know.
>
> **I could do this if it hasn't been done already.**
>
> [quote as of your message of April, 13.]
> * Help translators review their (or others) work
> - We got some formatting / mark-up in some of the translations. There
> are automated checks for the mistakes we (i.e. the coders) make
> ourselves. It is quite possible some of these checks should be
> extended to catch common translation mistakes.
> - Are there existing tools we can trivially run on the po-files to
> check them for common mistakes?
>
>
> **I could do this if it hasn't been done already.**
>
All of it would still be appreciated. :)
> Just give me an info. Otherwise, I'll check out something else to work on.
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Stephan Beck
>
>
> [...]
Thanks,
~Niels
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