Re: Can we measure Fedora users by language?

Rafal Luzynski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.internationalization
Message-ID <[email protected]>
10.09.2018 07:37 Sundeep Anand <[email protected]> wrote:
>  [...]
>  ( just an idea - would need inputs on this - not sure how much this would
> help here )  
>   
>  In Transtats ( at http://transtats.xyz ) we have relationship whereby people
> can traverse from  Fedora Release > Language > Packages. There we have some
> information on "how languages are doing at translation platform?" but this
> depends on list of packages added. 
>  Secondly, as it has statistics from build system, hence, some interface could
> be created for "how languages > packages are doing at build system?" - so,
> this at-a-glace picture could help both 1) Language Maintainers and 2) Package
> Maintainers. 

This is a different story: your system tells how much and how good
quality of we deliver. My question here is how much it is consumed
by users and how much adding a language increases the Fedora user
base. I'm afraid this is difficult or impossible to answer.

> [...]
>  Languages list at every translation platform may differ. For DamnedLies its
> 185:  https://l10n.gnome.org/languages/ ,   for fedora.zanata its 101:
>  https://fedora.zanata.org/languages , for weblate (demo) its 50+:
>  https://demo.weblate.org/languages/    In fedora we have people using many
> different platforms to translate (obviously for us its Zanata - as our
> platform) -- but good news is: everything is built in koji !!

Add to this the list of languages supported by glibc:

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=localedata/SUPPORTED

It contains 196 different languages, or 315 counting regional (like
English in the US/UK/India/Australia) and script variants (Latin,
Cyrillic, Devanagari), or 486 counting different charset. Why this
list is so ultimate? If a language is missing from Zanata or Damned
Lies or other platforms you can add it or you can just provide your
own translation not using any platform. But if a locale is missing
from glibc you will be unable to use it: setlocale() will say
"Unknown locale".

Regards,

Rafal
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