From kde-i18n-doc  Mon Aug 18 07:29:45 2014
From: David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 07:29:45 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: Minimum translation percentage for frameworks release
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On Sunday 03 August 2014 01:34:54 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Divendres, 1 d'agost de 2014, a les 14:08:54, Alexander Potashev v=
a
>=20
> escriure:
> > 2014-08-01 13:07 GMT+04:00 M=C4=81ris Narti=C5=A1s <maris.kde@gmail=
.com>:
> > > As a head of another inactive, barely passing current criteria la=
nguage
> > > team, I would also vote for partially translated strings over no
> > > translation at all. If the user doesn't like partially translated=

> > > dialogs, he can always join the translation team and help to impr=
ove the
> > > situation.
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > > The head of Latvian team,
> > > M=C4=81ris Narti=C5=A1s.
> > >=20
> > > 2014-07-31 22:51 GMT+03:00 Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl@huftis.org>:=

> > >> to. den 31. 07. 2014 klokka 21.14 (+0200) skreiv V=C3=ADt Pel=C4=
=8D=C3=A1k:
> > >> > I'm siding with Albert.
> > >> >=20
> > >> > As I translate to Czech language, we basically reached level, =
when
> > >> > you
> > >> > see unstranslated messages only rarely.
> > >> > That means, whenever I see untranslated message, I can underst=
and its
> > >> > point and am able to fix it.
> > >>=20
> > >> FWIW, I too agree with Albert=E2=80=99s proposal.
> > >>=20
> > >> I work on a language where the KDE translations (of at least som=
e
> > >> applications and libraries) are far from complete.
> > >> Still, I prefer to see partial translations instead of no transl=
ations.
> > >>=20
> > >> This also make it easy to see which strings it is most important=
 to
> > >> translate (the =E2=80=98high-visibility=E2=80=99 ones, shown in =
the main application
> > >> window and dialogues =E2=80=93 rare error message and descriptio=
ns of rarely
> > >> used preferences dialogues should IMHO not be prioritised when o=
ne has
> > >> limited manpower for translating).
> >=20
> > Hi M=C4=81ris and all the others,
> >=20
> > Looks like we reached a consensus. (Those who are only subscribed t=
o
> > kde-frameworks-devel, please see in the KDE-i18n-doc mailing list m=
ore
> > replies for shipping all translations without filtering.)
> >=20
> > Sorry, I totally missed the point about motivation for newcomers in=

> > translation teams, even though I joined our translation team for th=
e
> > same reason as V=C3=ADt did and around the same 5-6 years ago :)
>=20
> Good then, no minimal translation percentage for frameworks, easy to
> implement ;)

Yes, I like this solution too, for the same reason :-)

--=20
David Faure, faure@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE Frameworks 5