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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Importing translations from .desktop?
From:       Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzer () kde ! org>
Date:       2015-11-01 20:48:33
Message-ID: 27817446.iiycb0x6QB () krummdeckel
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On Sunday, 1. November 2015 20:53:10 Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 01 Nov 2015 21:19:48 +0200
> 
> "Yuri Chornoivan" <yurchor@ukr.net> wrote:
> > The files (in po format) just should be merged with these files:
> > 
> > http://l10n.kde.org/stats/gui/trunk-kde4/po/desktop_playground-edu
> > _rkward.po/
> > 
> > However, KDE has its own translation teams with their QA persons.
> > So it would be bad idea to make the merge without KDE teams.
> 
> I was roughly aware of this, but I was hoping for some sort of
> magical solution, here. Getting in touch with 28 teams,
> individually, for 2 strings each is downright impractical. Not
> going to do that.
> 
> I guess it's simply another point in case, why a web-UI for
> contributing translations would be a useful addition...

In what way? The translation has to go through the translation 
infrastructure regardless of it coming from a webUI or a tool.

And if the first bad translation is coming in from some drive-by 
translator, there will be a point against webUI.
A translation is not a collection of translated words. If in one 
application "folder" in German is sometimes "Ordner", sometimes 
"Verzeichnis" and sometimes "dir" (coming from a developer, then the 
translation is not helping. Well, this example might not be ideal but 
a lot of translation work goes for unifying wording and translations. 
If drive-by translators start throwing words as us and we have to 
rotate just to revert and fix those translates words, then many "real" 
translators might just give up and so something useful elsewhere.

In the German team (being a 1,5 man show) the perception over the last 
years was that a new contributor is causing more work than he is doing 
when he stays for less than a month whith talking on the mailing list.
And drive-by contributors do not subscribe to a mailing list. 
Cannonocal has it's Rosetta and KDE translators who are part of the 
game for longer than 5 years can probably remember fighting Roseatt 
translations for years in Kubuntu. All those bug reports we had to 
close. And ... well, German Kubuntu users had been asked to press 
"Weltraum", which is the German word for "outer space".
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181080
And this is just one of hundreds of complaints about wrong translation 
coming from that webUI back then.

Regards
Frederik
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