On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Danilo Šegan <dan...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hi Ask, > > У сре, 22. 12 2010. у 13:01 +0100, Ask Hjorth Larsen пише: > >> It's unfortunate that the `fuzzy' feature of gettext is not supported >> in LP, and there have been previous discussions in the manual team >> about what to do, but there's no really good solution as it is. > > Perhaps we should really just turn fuzzy translations into suggestions. > It wouldn't be a big deal for us, but: > > 1. people *will* mistakenly approve suggestions which look almost the > same (imagine someone fixing a typo of a missing "not" in a long > documentation message: I will bet you that most people will not notice > the "not" and will just approve the existing translation); this is a > problem even with offline translation, but Launchpad makes it very easy > to make this mistake for reviewers > 2. if msgmerge was not done prior to the import, there won't be any > benefit > 3. people will expect this to actually work, and yet it wouldn't (iow, > we'll get questions why was there not a suggestion for one string or > another, and those questions are nothing but a distraction); today we > just get feature requests about this :) > > Those are the reasons why it's not behaving like that today. We do, > however, want to have a smart "similarity matching" feature for > suggestions. That's a lot more work. I'd be happy to guide anyone with > some time on their hands into implementing that. > > Cheers, > Danilo
Hi Danilo I agree that fuzzies should not be labeled as "suggestions" for the reasons you mention. But it would be great the fuzzies could be displayed with a different label like "Fuzzy", although possibly more descriptive like "This string may be similar to...". Then the reviewer will know that this was not a suggestion as such, and will be more careful. (If the project expects high-quality translations, the reviewer will presumably be a member of a translation team, and can be expected to at least follow some basic instructions.) If this is too much of an interface change, the text accompanying the suggestion could instead be changed from the present form: Suggested in coreutils in Ubuntu Intrepid package "coreutils" by Ask Hjorth Larsen on 2010-03-08 to something like This suggestion was chosen by a computer based on existing similar strings Wouldn't this mostly solve the fuzzy issue, and require less work than a new similarity matching feature? Sorry to further derail the discussion. (It's unrealistic for me to help with implementation for the next 10 months or so, although I would love to if I had more time) Best regards Ask _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
