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Re: About translations in general - was: Re: [Pingus-CVS] CVS: Games/Pin


From: Ingo Ruhnke
Subject: Re: About translations in general - was: Re: [Pingus-CVS] CVS: Games/Pingus/po cs.po,1.11,1.12 de.po,1.48,1.49 it.po,1.16,1.17 nl.po,1.22,1.23 sr.po,1.7,1.8 tr.po,1.30,1.31
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 01:35:29 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux)

David Philippi <address@hidden> writes:

> Regarding all those translation stuff which goes about the list
> recently, are there others who feel like we should create a new
> mailinglist for it?

No. Its just that we are pretty close to a really, actually
minutes/hours away from it now... Normally translation traffic should
be pretty much zero, since translation directly stuff in CVS is pretty
much pointless, since its to much of a moving target and peole using
CVS won't need a translation. 

> 1. Announce changes to the english sources so that translators may add
> translations or make corrections.

Should only happen a week or so before the release, not everytime CVS
changes. Translation without release is pretty much a waste of effort.

> 2. Discussions about translations and the english text (grammar,
> alternative wordings, display problems...)
> 3. Patches ;-)

Between releases the english versions should be the only one that gets
fixed or changed.

> Especially the first is intended to make it easier to keep the
> translations up to date. Not everyone is on the CVS list and even if
> one is subscribed, it's hard to recognize the need from the patch
> sometimes.

Thats why one doesn't translating CVS versions in the first place.

The one problem with all this is that CVS is still getting new english
text this short before the release, that shouldn't happen, but was
necessary, due to some bugs/missing features.

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