Re: GIMP update

[Rafael Fontenelle <rafaelff gnome org>]

Em qua., 27 de mai. de 2020 às 15:56, Marco Ciampa via gnome-i18n
<gnome-i18n gnome org> escreveu:
> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 03:18:59PM -0300, Rafael Fontenelle wrote:
> > Em qua., 27 de mai. de 2020 às 12:32, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> escreveu:
> > > On Wed, 2020-05-27 at 14:31 +0200, Marco Ciampa via gnome-i18n wrote:
> > > > Well, my 10 cent is that a bad translation is better than no
> > > > translation at all.
> > >
> > > I'd very much disagree. No documentation at all is still better than
> > > wrong, misleading, frustrating documentation which wasted my time.
> >
> > To share one personal unpleasant experience: accessing GitHub Actions
> > documentation will automatically give me Brazilian Portuguese
> > translation, which is incomplete and in some cases with bad
> > translation. Even some keywords are translated, when they should not
> > (e.g. 'job' and 'schedule' keywords were translated). I always end up
> > switching to English, which as a translator (not GitHub's though) is
> > very disappointing.
>
> 1) you know english
> 2) you are a translator
>
> Please stop thinking that all people are like us.

Well, if the person can't read English, having a documentation that is
partially translated with important strings translated (when should
not) won't help much I think?

> > So, yes, quality translation is very important.
>
> I never said what quality is not important.
>
> I said that a bad translation, for people that do not understand English
> _at all_ is better than nothing (=English). Please think at some oriental
> or arabic user for a moment and try to be in their shoes for a moment.

I am in those shoes in some cases when trying to read a site content
in a language I don't know, like Russian or Germany.  In cases like
these, one can use a machine translator like Google Translate.