Re: open translations database

["Kenneth Christiansen" <kenneth gnu org>]

Hi Aoife,

I was wondering if you had a Danish freelancer or something like 
that ;)

>* A lot of applications had untranslated text.
 
This is one of the toughest things to deal with, and a very importain 
one. What I do is to try to keep Gnome 100% at all times, but that is
impossible, and sometimes maintainers release a package, which might
not be well translated. This is extremely bad, since sometimes, there
will go uptil a half year before a new release is made, and who say
people download this. 

This has been helped a lot with our status table, and the more pro
i18n attitute among package maintainers. 

The main problem with this today is:

- lack of translators
- lack of time to test the packages (updates comes too quick to 
  catch up)
- maintainers who do not inform of upcoming releases
- translators are not working full time, so often they are busy
  up to a new release
- other translation formats, like .desktop .keys etc files, that 
  is in no status table, and that translators generally do not know 
  about
- missing inclusion of #include <config.h> ;) => translations are 
  not working
- missing files in POTFILES.in (better since the update.pl -M was
  created - but still far from perfect)

Cheers, Kenneth

* Extended characters ÅÄÖåäö are sometimes displayed 
AA,AE,OE,aa,ae,oe.
 
*  Some Inconsistencies

Christian, let me know how we can help.
Aoife



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> Hello Aoife,
> 
> I believe most teams are interested in working together with 
people from
> Sun and it's contractors with improving the GNOME 
translations.
> Of course, I can only speak for the Swedish team, but we look 
very much
> forward to hear from Sun and the Swedish freelancer working 
for Sun (is
> there one?), possibly with a QA on existing GNOME 
translations.
> 
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
> 
> > Aoife Dunne - Sunsoft ELC wrote:
> > Gustavo, I can have our Brazilian Portuguese freelancer
> > perform a QA on GNOME translations and report his/her
> > feedback to the Brazilian Translation Team.  Let me know if
> > you are interested.
> > 
> > Bye for now
> > Aoife