All, Good and interesting remarks from both angles have been exposed, but the one thing I would like to see (and I'm sure everyone as well) is a combined solution to the issue. It is MHO that any team, Gnome/KDE/you-name-it, would be at an advantage point if they were to take advantage of what Rosetta can offer now and all the potential it has for the future. Let me explain this a bit more...
Right now, and I ask for forgiveness if I miss anything OR provide incomplete information from this point onward, there is a pretty steep learning curve for new collaborators to join any of the major localization teams out there. The reason I say this is due to the number of steps and applications required to perform translations the way most teams are set up. You have to learn about PO files, how to handle them, how the file headers should be treated, how something should be marked as fuzzy, maybe even create a diff (maybe?), etc... I think that Rosetta has bridged the enrmous gap that existed between the open source communities (localizartion teams in especific) and the general community of users. This means that even if someone doesn't take the time to read any docuemntation put out there by the individual teams (Rosetta) and jumps right in, all they are really doing is sending more suggestions... There is no major learning curve involved, and though you will get some screwy suggestions, you cannot deny the overall positive effect that it has not only for the team members, who now have more data to sample and maybe come up with the best translations (based on their set of quality standards), but also for the overall community who can now relate to the whole open source experience! I firmly believe that both Gnome/KDE/[insert your favorite localization team here] can take advantage of this process! If the existing localization teams were to bring in to the table their know-how and were willing to join forces, I'm sure we can all benefit from it! I'm not claiming that this has not been done in the past, for I'm one of the "new kids on the block", but I find that Rosetta has a lot of potential and would be a whole lot easier/faster to gather data via its web interface than having a very select group of individuals doing it all via POs and what not. So I propose a new direction for this thread. Instead of trying to dig out more issues and problems with the current situation, how about we set out to come up with a set of ways we could make it work for everyone? Ideas? Cheers, -- Og B. Maciel (Leader) Ubuntu Brazilian Portuguese Translators [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Keys: D5CFC202 http://www.ogmaciel.com (en_US) http://blog.ogmaciel.com (pt_BR) -- ubuntu-translators mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators
