Re: Rethinking "Supported language"

["Ihar Hrachyshka" <ihar hrachyshka gmail com>]

On Feb 19, 2008 5:57 PM, Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com> wrote:
> Ihar Hrachyshka wrote:
> > 2008/2/19 Mişu Moldovan <dumol gnome ro>:
> >
> >> "Ihar Hrachyshka" <ihar hrachyshka gmail com> a scris:
> >>
> >>> 2008/2/19 Mişu Moldovan <dumol gnome ro>:
> >>>
> >>>> I'm not against translating them, it's just that they are of no use
> >>>> to regular users.
> >>>>
> >>> Who are these regular users, hum? Am I not "regular"? If "regular"
> >>> users don't need these tools then - just drop them! If they are there,
> >>> in official release sets then it's what our users (newbies and
> >>> photographers aren't better or smth then programmers) need.
> >>>
> >> I'm not against releasing them either... Just don't count their
> >> localizations when deciding which language are supported and which are
> >> not because most of the users do not use them at all.
> >>
> > Most users don't use accessibility features provided by GNOME (and
> > here are > 1000 messages!). Most users don't use "zenity" rapid
> > scripting system and our Windows remote connectivity tools for GNOME.
> > Is it the reason not to count them as a 100% GNOME component?
> >
> As I mentioned earlier, the "Supported language" is for use in the
> release notes only.
> By not counting the devel tools, we lower the barrier for new languages
> to get the "supported" badge.
> We already do something similar, but not counting the documentation in
> the %80 barrier.
>
> The proper question then, would be: Is it a significant effect to your
> team and
> your local marketing of GNOME if you are in the "supported language" group?
>
> The languages that could take advantage from this include (70%-79% in
> http://l10n.gnome.org/releases/gnome-2-22 )
>
> Latvian
> Basque
> Hindi
> Bengali (India)
> Malayalam
> Albanian
> Welsh
> Assamese
> Hebrew
> Marathi
> Indonesia
> Bengali
> Romanian
>
> If you can speak up for these languages, then it would make sense to
> make the 80% adjustment.
>
> Otherwise, it would be better to spend the time translating ;-)
<offtopic>Plz don't tell others what to do;-)</offtopic>
My team already translated quite a lot in Dev tools category. So if
you just drop these modules from general counting then you'll lower
our stats, isn't it? ;-)
>
> Simos
>