On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:01:06 +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote: > I am translating these templates because nobody else will do it. <...> > I am currently the _only_ active Vietnamese translator in Gnome or > Debian. I am trying to change that. <...>
I have no doubt in your motivation and can only congratulate you for your tremendous efforts. > I certainly hope none of my translations are a mess, which I also > hope is not what you are implying. You got me wrong; probably it is my fault that I haven't expressed myself correctly. I am not saying that vi translations are a mess, neither I was implying similar analogy. Perfectly documented/commented templates will be awesome, but testing the translation is a must, at least in my language. Maybe I should have said it in another way, maybe it is my personal judgement as I never translate apps that I don't understand and haven't actually seen. I am currently investigating the pointers that Danilo gave. If we can extract useful information without bothering the developers, it'll be a big win for all translation teams. >> Most of the code is very well commented, > > No, it's not. Certainly not in the files I've translated. Most of it > is completely bare of comments. I meant the source code. I have to agree with Danilo that looking at the source code is a waste of time and certainly not the most pleasant job for a translator. > Your email is extremely inappropriate in my culture. I fail to see > where making these kinds of insinuations is at all useful, or > positive in contributing to this i18n list. Once again I apologise and regret that you have treated it as an insult. As the string freeze approaches, I will shut up and try to concentrate on translations, rather than writing useless messages that abuse people. However, I won't change my attitude to proprietary software. -- Yavor Doganov JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software Association - Bulgaria http://fsa-bg.org GNOME in Bulgarian! http://gnome.cult.bg _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
