Op Do, 2009-08-27 om 08:59 +0200 skryf Claude Paroz: > Le mercredi 26 août 2009 à 17:13 -0500, Shaun McCance a écrit : > > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 23:02 +0100, Bruce Cowan wrote: > > > I've noticed that one of the main purposes of the en_GB team is to fix > > > the grammar and spelling of the original strings. However, most of the > > > work of the team seems to be done after string freeze, when the strings > > > can't be changed (easily). Of course, I could have started earlier, but > > > I didn't for some reason. > > > > > > Anyway, I thought that a sort of "string strike force" may be a good > > > idea. Essentially it would audit strings while they can still be fixed. > > > > > > The en_GB team could take this on itself, but it's probably a bit > > > understaffed. > > > > The documentation team has discussed doing this before. > > We'd like to look for more than just spelling and grammar > > problems. Notably: > > > > 1) Making sure terminology matches our style guide > > 2) Fixing awkward and confusing sentences > > 3) Checking for things that cause translation problems > > > > I have thoughts on how we could do this systematically. > > Are others interested in doing this? We could have a > > meeting or something to get the ball rolling. > > I like this idea very much. > > The difficulty might lie in the timeframe devoted to this review > process. If it's too soon, it might lead to time waste, because strings > can still change. What about some "string sprint" the week-end just > before string freeze? > > And if we don't want to review more than 40'000 strings each release, I > probably could extend DL to show a view with only new strings from the > previous release.
This sounds like a very good idea. If just a few translators can be involved along with native English speakers, the documentation team, I think it will allow us to put in a big effort. Friedel -- Recently on my blog: http://translate.org.za/blogs/friedel/en/content/firefox-african-languages-who-joining-us _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
