From kde-i18n-doc  Sun Jul 16 14:25:09 2006
From: Jannick Kuhr <jakuhr-linux () gmx ! de>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 14:25:09 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: Rosetta for Edgy and KDE [Was: Rosetta for Kubuntu Dapper and KDE]
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Tom Albers schrieb:
> I think you are far from being constructive here. I offered to try to setup a 
> dialog between you and them, but you have ignored that part of my mail.
>
> So please carry on expressing your worries, and Jannick too, but please don't 
> be surprised that nothing will change at Rosetta's. You were not interested.
>   

Tom,

I would like to clarify some points, because I fear you got a quite 
wrong impression.

As I already wrote some mails before, I invested a lot of time in fixing 
problems related to Rosetta. I established a dialog between the German 
KDE and Ubuntu translation teams, tried to reach a better coordination, 
posted bugs in Launchpad, mailed actualized translations to the team and 
even installed Kubuntu ( I never used it before) to see if there are 
still some issues. I did all this although I don't like the concept of 
Rosetta, a least not in its current state. But I think it is more 
important to ensure that all Kubuntu users get a good translation and 
prevent the young Ubuntu translation team from translating already 
translated apps once again, since I would be very disappointing for them 
if their translations get overwritten by a translation from upstream.

The mail I wrote Friday night sounded probably much harsher than it was 
intended. It was very late when I came home from work and I just wanted 
to answer Jonathan's mail quickly. If this resulted in a too unfriendly 
mail I feel sorry for this. It was not my intention.

When I got up the next day in the morning and read your answer, I 
thought that it would be a great idea to establish an dialog, because we 
he have talked about this problems for a lot of weeks now without real 
results. Since it had only a few minutes to write something, I just 
wanted to post my proposal for the link in the programs. This is of 
course no joke and intended as an idea for a compromise - based on your 
offer for a dialog. Probably it had been better to write this 
explicitly. The reaction of other people here shows that my proposal 
seems to be not that bad. Perhaps you can think about it once again or 
please explain me your reaction, so we can discuss possible alternatives :)

I hope we can pick up your offer to establish an dialog. I am strongly 
interested in solving this situation in a constructive way :)

Greetings, Jannick