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Subject: Re: Why does kde-i18n-doc translate outdated documentation?
From: Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date: 2009-10-19 19:41:47
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 The documentation is full of wrong and outdated stuff, it is impossible or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>
>
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