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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Internationalization
From:       Christian Mueller <cmueller () gmx ! de>
Date:       2005-05-21 6:45:39
Message-ID: 200505210845.50602.cmueller () gmx ! de
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Am Samstag, 21. Mai 2005 03:47 schrieb R.F. Pels:
> Mind you, I did not have the intention of putting IRMA down. I think it has 
> features that would be welcome in KBabel too. However, I think the situation 
> that exists now is suboptimal:
> 
> - users are 'drawn away' from the regular translation teams while many of
>   them could use an influx of contributors
> - there are two translation tools now that are not yet integrated
> - there are two parties that do QA
> - there are two parties that do management and coordination of the 
>   translation efforts.


Make that three if, for example, the maintainer of an extragear app 
chose to register his project with rosetta, the web translation
tool developed by the (k)ubuntu project: 
https://launchpad.ubuntu.com/rosetta
(There's none yet so this problem exists only in theory...)

It seems these web-based translation tools are in fashion at the moment.

I think the KDE version of the translations must be the "authoritative" 
one and improvements must be synched back and forth on a regular basis 
from and to the different external tools or 
- some contributions may never make it to all KDE users
- the translations in different distros will get more and more inconsistent
- translation errors will be reported in the wrong place 
  (e.g. to bugs.kde.org, but the KDE i18n team is not responsible 
   for the translation in the Linspire distro if Linspire uses
   a separate system)

So the "giving back" part is very important.  Unfortunately 
the integration of changes will require checking, I don't 
think they can or should get in automatically. 
That would mean work for the KDE translation maintainers, 
and probably for "someone" in the other direction as well...

Christian. 


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