Flammie Pirinen wrote: > 2005-10-19, Petteri Räty sanoi, jotta: > > >>I thought that when I am bored I > > > Join GDP Finnish translation team! We're still short one followup > translator and pile of alt-arch stuff at least before getting official > status and linkage. ;-) >
I might one day one when I have the time. At the moment I think I am a little too busy. Because I regularly touch metadata.xml files when working with packages I think I will stick to translating those when I feel like it. > >>might translate the longdescriptions >>in metadata.xml files to Finnish. > > > Hmm, can I suggest some QA or similar stuff for these before > committing? I don't fully know what's the visibility of this stuff > though, but I'd feel much nicer if they were at least proofread or peer > evaluated once before providing them to public. I don't mean to > question your Finnish capabilities of course, I've just participated in > Finnish localisations of Open Source things long enough to know how bad > Finnish some people can produce. > I think herdstat can use this data but that's about it I think. Considering that every developer can add the English longdescriptions there without any peer review, I think it would be an overkill for Finnish translations. But if this is a problem I can of course run some diffs through you or something. > > Well, I'm no expert on Portage tree stuff of course, but isn't that a > bit too complex for the problem. I mean, if some description gets > changed so crucially that translations need to be updated -- which as > far as I understand shouldn't be too often -- wouldn't it be enough to > just drop the old translations? If you really need automatic > notification on changes in these things, cvs mailing list or CIA bot is > easy way to see them. > That would work of course, but if this data is one day going to be used by more users then having data marked as outdated is IMHO better than not having any data at all. With the way the Portage tree works at the moment the removal would fast reach users too. Regards, Petteri
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