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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Minimum translation percentage for Plasma 5 release
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2014-08-12 10:55:13
Message-ID: 4699830.dY9ynoaYtQ () xps
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El Dimarts, 12 d'agost de 2014, a les 12:44:32, Pino Toscano va escriure:
> On Tuesday 12 August 2014 12:13:01 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El Dimarts, 12 d'agost de 2014, a les 11:39:49, Pino Toscano va
> 
> escriure:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Tuesday 12 August 2014 11:56:40 Māris Nartišs wrote:
> > > > Keep in mind the motivating factor. I joined KDE, QGIS and GRASS
> > > > GIS
> > > > translation efforts because the shipped translations were
> > > > incomplete,
> > > > imperfect or even bogus.
> > > 
> > > Please do keep in mind most of our final users are not skilled in
> > > English, nor want/can contribute, and so on. For them, a incomplete
> > > (or low quality as well) translation can just produce the result of
> > > making them stop using the application/desktop environment
> > > altogether, possibly giving a bad advertising because "KThisApp is
> > > totally funny/crap in my language" (and yes, I've seen over the
> > > past years example of both users not using something because of
> > > incomplete/bad translations, and of bad advertising).
> > 
> > I'm confused here, you first argue that "most of our final users are
> > not skilled in English" but then you seem to argue for requiring a
> > high percentage of translations,
> 
> Correct.
> 
> > which means we're leaving those out
> > in the cold when possibly/maybe at 15% or 25% they would have enough
> > translations to get the basics translated and to guess the rest.
> 
> And how 15% implies that the basics are translated? Yes, you said
> "possibly/maybe", which means that such low percentage has the same
> probability to be useful strings than just error messages or uncommon
> strings.

It does not imply it, it does not imply against it either, so using it as 
limit seems arbitrary to me.

Cheers,
  Albert
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