Re: L10n FAD?

6.05.2018 05:06 Noriko Mizumoto <[email protected]> wrote:
> L10N FAD should be mainly the place to contribute l10n as well the place
> receive support about l10n. A translator may want to have questions,
> such as I want to understand the mechanism of an i18n process better, [...]

I cut the rest of this paragraph because I just fully agree with this.

> In this aspect, it is different from flock and a developer has no time
> to showcase their piece of art. This is best place for them to advertise
> their software in order to boost the localization percentage and quality
> for their software (community of practice).

My fear is that the developers may likely ignore the L10N event because
they may think that this is only for translators. I mentioned Flock
because it gathers everyone.

> Besides, Internationalization and Localization are totally different.
> Without i18n process, a software is not localizable. Besides, if no one
> from l10n team work for a software, it is no point that software to be
> i18n.

Thank you for reminding this, Noriko. I think I understand the terms
but sometimes I have a problem to actually apply this knowledge.

> I feel some or more developers misunderstand that Localization will
> automatically happen once they give internationalization process, aka
> all translators magically find their repo and give a translation
> whenever they want. Actually we sometime have been doing this, cz we are
> so smart.
> I hope my feeling is totally wrong.

I strongly would like to gather and connect those two groups. Maybe
even more than two, maybe also designers, doc writers?

> [...]
> True, let's leave it as l10n fad for now. I still like the idea to call
> it g11n fad, if more variety of topics come up.

OK, thank you, I agree. I'll leave it to Jona and Pravin because I think
they are the right people behind it.

Regards,

Rafal
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