Re: Contacting i18n/l10n team

Frans Spiesschaert <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:28:26 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.l10n,gmane.linux.debian.internationalization.general
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Hi,

Helge Kreutzmann schreef op di 18-06-2024 om 09:21 [+0000]:
> Hello *,
> Am Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 08:36:20AM +0800 schrieb xiao sheng wen(肖盛文):
> > 在 2024/6/18 04:23, Thomas Lange 写道:
> > > ....
> > > - I'm interested in what may help translators, for e.g. is git a
> > >    barrier for people to become an active translator? Would a web
> > > based
> > >    tool help?
> > For reference, weblate is a web based tool:
> > 
> > https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/
> > 
> > There are many open source projects and Debian's projects use it now.
> 
> This needs to be decided per language team. I'm personally not fond of
> web based tools and anonymus contributions have not had the best
> quality in the past. And you cannot talk to the submitters at all.
> 
> I think this is just lack of (wo)man power. Translation is important,
> but
> too few people take the time to prepare (good) translations and there
> is so much to translate. I would love to contribute to the web pages
> as well, but my resource are already bound to manpages-l10n and
> others.
> 
> From my manpages-l10n experience: Having a good infrastructure, trying
> to take care of the needs of translators, really helps.
> 
> So, in my opionion, what would really help is better education to the 
> english authors. If you only fix trivial (english) issues, e.g. commas, 
> quote signs, links, etc., then translators should not see it. So either 
> all up to date translations are bumped without change or the fix (e.g. 
> http → https) is done by the english author. This way, translators
> which 
> are up to date are releaved of work. And of course, separating trivial 
> and content updates. 
> 
> Greetings
> 
>          Helge
> 
As one of the few active members of the Dutch localisation team, I fully
agree with the above points raised by Helge.

Greets,
Frans

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