Re: 4.9 release notes

El Divendres, 20 de juliol de 2012, a les 23:11:17, Sebastian Gruener va 
escriure:
> Am Freitag, 20. Juli 2012, 22:13:14 schrieb Lydia Pintscher:
> > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Carl Symons <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Yes, we want translations. Is there sufficient time to get them on the
> > > main site? The past two release announcements saw few translations,
> > > because there was not enough time to get them done prior to the
> > > announcement release. 4.8 was translated into Persian; 4.7 was
> > > available in Estonian, Russian and Ukrainian.
> > > 
> > > If the announcements are not going to be translated anyway, then there
> > > is little lost by doing one announcement on the Dot. Having one
> > > translation detracts from the fact that KDE supports more than 60
> > > languages.
> > 
> > The problem was that there was not enough time for translators to
> > translate the announcement before it went public I think. And when it
> > was published most didn't bother I guess.
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Lydia
> 
> first: i really think we should have translated announcements, to show that
> the software is available in different languages. but that's just a
> personal opinion
> 
> and second: we might just ask the teams to translate the announcement, if we
> could agree on the necessity of translations - instead of waiting for them
> to do so.
> and i don't think the time-argument is valid. i followed the announcement of
> gnome 3.4 [1] quite closely due to my job and it was impressive to see, how
> they managed to translate this stuff. on day 1 there was only english,
> later that day the first translations followed by the most active teams
> like german and portuguese. after a few days, they had the most spoken
> languages covered. so i don't think all translations have to be publish at
> the exact same time. it's good enough if they follow shortly after the
> initial/official announcement

Translating after the announcement is a poor's man solution and not in our 
tradition. Let's have the announcement ready a few days the date, it's just 
better for everyone.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> cheers,
> sebastian
> 
> [1]http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.4/
> 
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