> I don't know how these translation things are handled technically. But > since the intended meaning didn't change at all, I don't see why it is > better to have a "bad" english version and 40 equally "bad" translated > versions, over having a better english version, 10 better translated > versions, and 30 working translated versions with formally one > fuzzyness?
One fuzzyness means the whole screen is shown in English. So the choice is between a supposedly "perfect" English screen shown to all users, no matter which language they prefer to use.....and 40 quite good screens which users may read in their own language. The choice is also between translators happy to have achieved a full process and have a complete translation in their language....and angry teams because the templates have been broken again. Purely psychological issue, sure....but that counts more than you may imagine. And, besides all this, a huge time wasting ot i18n coordinators trying to get updates in by warning translators, then warn them again...then make a status report to the package maintainers....usually two weeks delay if we want to have the same translation ratio we had before the change decision. I handled the last change with exim4 maintainers and, believe me, that had a cost in matter of time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
