From kde-i18n-doc  Mon Oct 19 19:41:47 2009
From: Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:41:47 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: Why does kde-i18n-doc translate outdated documentation?
Message-Id: <200910192141.47532.aacid () kde ! org>
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A Dilluns, 19 d'octubre de 2009, Burkhard Lück va escriure:
> Hi translators,
> 
> yesterday Albert deleted all ktimetracker docbooks (among them the german)
> with the obsolete entity "&karm;", which was replaced by "&ktimetracker;".
> 
> This change from "&karm;" to "&ktimetracker;" in the englisch docbooks
> happened some weeks ago and made around a third of all messages in
> ktimetracker.po fuzzy.
> 
> Three teames have already a fully translated ktimetracker.po again.
> 
> So it should be an easy and quick task to update the german ktimetracker.po
>  by replacing the obsolete entity with the new one.
> 
> But sadly I had the same experience as with nearly every translation I
>  wanted to update or start in the last years:
> 
> The documentation is full of wrong and outdated stuff, it is impossible or
> useless to translate it!
> 
> To proof this, the result of a quick and dirty update of the english
>  docbook:
> 
> $ svn diff kdepim/doc/ktimetracker/index.docbook |diffstat
>  index.docbook |  231
> ++++++++++------------------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 190 deletions(-)
> 
> No bugreport!
> 
> No mail to kde-doc-english!
> 
> No mail to this list!
> 
> The same happend with several hundred docbooks in the last years.
> 
> A really really serious question:
> 
> Why does this happen?
> What is going wrong here?

What happens is that the one that translate the app sometimes does not really 
use it, just does the translation, so he doesn't know/check if the manual is 
ok or not.

Albert

> 
> <rant>
> I can not understand that kde-i18n-doc translates silently every nonsens
> documentation, no bugreport, no mail, nothing :-(
> </rant>
>