Vincent Untz <vu...@gnome.org>, Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:14:57 +0100: > Le lundi 19 janvier 2009, à 19:27 +0100, Jorge González González a écrit : > > El lun, 19-01-2009 a las 09:58 +0100, Stéphane Raimbault escribió: > > > 2009/1/19 Marcel Telka <mar...@telka.sk>: > > > > 2. To maintain consistency of the whole translation of a module. > > > > > > It's for this reason that the French team has migrated from this model > > > where some people were responsible of a few modules, because it was > > > very difficult to achieve consistency across the GNOME environment. > > When you have a lot of people entering and leaving the team you don't > > get that consistency, since they have to learn the workflow and the > > style guides, which usually takes a while. > > I see the potential issue you're highlighting, but at least for the > french team, it was still a theoretical issue in the past few years (and > we were already using vertimus): the fact is that newcomers nearly > always ask how they can help first, and so they don't go and reserve > modules without asking. > > Now, maybe it's a real issue for another team, in which case it's > important to say that you're experiencing it :-)
From my experience there're two groups of newcomers (and neither of them could be described as vast majority). The first ones join the translation team with intention to translate particular piece of software, while the second ones join because they just want to help with the translation effort. Either way, it's in general a good idea to assign, if possible, every translator to particular modules, as Marcel said, as well as review the whole message catalog when one is updating translation previously assigned to and translated by someone else. The consistency matters, and I've difficulty understanding how real consistency could be maintained in an open group of volunteers where people are constantly changing the modules they translate. Cheers, Petr Kovar _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
