Re: Comments on Mathias blog post about contributing
Mathias Bauer <[email protected]>
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Sophie wrote: >> Whether help content must be part of a feature CWS or >> not should be seen in the general context of how we want to localize it. > > Not only, sometimes changes are not documented because the corresponding > CWS has not been mark help relevant, having an issue in the CWS tasks > list would help to make sure (or at least give a chance that) it will be > documented in the same release the CWS is integrated. Ah, that was what you where pointing at! Yes, good point. > We have already talk about improving the process on the l10n list and at > the last OOoCon also. See the thread here : > http://l10n.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=dev&msgNo=10607 > As said, I'm not technical enough to know what would be the best tools > and process, but I'm used to SCM and I can understand the benefits we > can gain here. So what you described above using Mercurial is a kind of > dream I'm sure all l10n teams would like to see happen :) > > It may be not relevant for the discussion here, but we have had to fight > against integration issues, formatting issues, development issues, > etc... I've spent hours translating strings that were not integrated or > seen changes finally reverted. > So for me it's not only a localization process issue but a better > coordination/communication between the development process and the > localization process. I have just outlined a "skeleton" of what I could imagine as (dream of?) a localization process. The nasty details will be interesting to discuss. I think that the less steps we have between the files that we are using for a localized build, and what a localization developer actually uses to provide his work, the better will be the result. But I agree with Jörg, this will take time and if smaller improvements can be done before, we should be glad to get them. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[email protected]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it.