2010/10/15 Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org>: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:26:40AM +0200, Kenneth Nielsen wrote: >> >> WOW easy does it. It sounds a bit like we have already made the >> decision. This should be discussed thoroughly before we decide >> anything or ask people to do work on it. >> >> While I can certainly support the idea of of-loading work from Claude >> and others, we need to carefully consider the functionality, because >> right now we have something that works for almost all that we want to >> do, and we do not want to go backwards on that account. >> >> Claude writes that while functionality may differ, that it might be ok >> as long as the total functionality is high. I only partly agree with >> that. I think there is some functionality that is _essential_, and if >> that can not be implementer then we should not move. >> >> The functionality that I am talking about is simple though and pertain >> to the fact that we work a lot more with sets that with individual >> packages. We have to be able to have overviews of sets of modules[1], >> (and it would also be nice to have overviews of the overview[2]), >> including translations status in the same screen, the same way we have >> today. This is so essential to the way we work that we, in my opinion, >> cannot do without. > > I was about to say some thing along these lines, but you summarised it > better than what I would have done. I just want to added that every time > I use Transifex I find its UI very confusing and things that can be > simply achieved with damned-lies are either impossible or done in a very > convoluted way. I fail to say what features Transifex offers that we > need; we neither need the complex multi-project multi-team > multi-workflow setup nor the near useless online translation tool (if we > ever need one, then IMHO only Pootle is worthy consideration currently).
Well I should say, that I am not necessarily against. I just want us to consider our options carefully. Regarding advantages, it would be to be part of a larger community centered around the tool. The way it is now, if we want a new feature then we should either write it ourselves or ask Claude, who probably already have enough to do. Regards Kenneth _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
