On May 11, 9:21 am, Philipp Schneider <philipp.schneid...@gmx.net> wrote: > On 04/27/2011 06:53 PM, William Stein wrote: > > > Hi Sage-Devel, > > > Wow, there are currently 237 tickets that are set to "needs review" on > > trac right now [1]. > > > [1] http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/report/30 > > > I would like to encourage people to referee more tickets. That's it. > > > -- William > > Hello everyone, > > among those tickets is Michael and mine translation of the Tutorial into > German. > (seehttp://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9725) > Our work was finished half a year ago. It has even been reviewed by > several people. (Which however were no sage developers.) > > So it you understand some German and could review our translation, > please do it!
Looks like Volker is on it :) But I think perhaps part of the problem with this (and the Russian and Spanish translations, also awaiting review) is that it is not clear what is needed for positive review. Deciding whether the translation is idiomatic German is something one group of people can do; deciding whether the mathematics has been translated correctly is something a smaller group of people (not a subset of the first group) can do; deciding whether the original Sage document has been followed faithfully (if this is even a goal) is something yet another group could do. I think it would be worth having a discussion about exactly what we want when it comes to 'localization'. For instance, it is inconceivable to me that the translations will end up mirroring the changes in the documentation - we just don't have those kinds of (human) resources. And even the tutorial etc. probably gets outdated, only the ref manual would always be up-to-date. But if we hashed that out, it would mean that people who fall into one of the three groups above - but not all of them - could feel safer reviewing such *very* valuable contributions, without feeling like they are responsible for everything. (And it might get more non-Sage- users thinking about Sage, if they were asked to referee just the language, for instance :) ) - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
