Re: shared-mime-info

[Elros Cyriatan <cyriatan fastmail fm>]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:23:41 +0800
Hasbullah Bin Pit <sebol@ikhlas.com> wrote:

> Christian Rose menulis:
> 
> > 
> > 
> >>How about forming "Freedesktop Translation project" where the translator 
> >>is from GTP and KDE-i18n
> > 
> > 
> > I don't really see the point in doing that. A translation project
> > requires a certain amount of volunteers to take off and be able to
> > provide a meaningful amount of translation teams and translation
> > coverage, and to get the necessary benefits of team organizations and
> > people helping each other etc.
> > 
> > And we already have an independant translation project (called the
> > Translation Project), so I don't see the point of creating yet another
> > one for the freedesktop.org translations, at least not at this point in
> > time.

I agree. Better not have too many translation projects, it only makes it harder
to communicate among them. (For the Dutch language, we have a common
mailing list for practically all translation volunteers, on which we discuss specific
words, in order to make sure that the different projects use consistent translations.)

> Hmmm Maybe i'm biased toward TP.
> As we all know, we prefer cvs than TP
> cvs commit is just easier than TPRobot

Actually I don't agree. I personally prefer TPRobot, because it enforces the
correctness of the files. It's harder to break translations.

> whenever there are gtk2/gnome2 apps out there, we suggest them to reside 
> at gnome cvs. if they reside at gnome cvs, it's easier for use to 
> translate it.

I agree for applications that are very close to Gnome or Gnome applications,
and I see the benefit of it being more likely that translations are consistent
(i.e. use the same jargon).

> alternatively, is TP
> but with TP, maintainer need to do extra work dealing with TP.
> compared with cvs, the miantainer/developer just develop as usual.

One of the benefits of TPRobot is that every contributor can directly work on
translations, without having to know cvs and its intricacies. With the current
GTP way of directly using cvs, the commiting of translations has to be done
by someone who knows the system (most probably the translation team
leader). I prefer the TP structure.

[snip]
> > If there's anything that needs to be improved with the TP in order
> > to handle the likely to be coming larger amount of freedesktop.org
> > translation domains, let's discuss that and try to arrange it with the
> > TP first.
> improvemet maybe:-
> 1. modules should be categorized.

Good point.

> 2. stats comparing team vs team performance.

Stats are currently weak indeed. Even only coloring modules according to
percentage completed would be a real improvement.

> 3. cvs access besides TPRobot

See above.


With regards,
Elros

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