Re: [gui-dev] Locales Warning

65% seems a bit arbitrary. Certainly there are more important messages that
could be weighted higher. But that would get quite complex.

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Received: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 09:23:35 AM PDT
From: "Philippe Verdy" <[email protected]>
To: "Justin Schmidt" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>Cc: 
Subject: [gui-dev] Locales Warning

> Warning: with the recent additions in the messages bundle, a significant 
> number of languages are now under the existing release threshold of 65%.
> 
> This may affect the following languages which were bundled until now:
> Catalan (64.52%), Hungarian (62.35%), Icelandic (62.85%), Polish (61.85%), 
> Simplified Chinese (63.27%).
> 
> Some new resources may be translated nearly automatically from other 
> existing translated resources because they are obvious (sometimes this is a

> minor change of format for a specific message). But I don't have the time to

> review them for now and reincrease their level.
> 
> Note also that Portuguese (65.11%) and Traditional Chinese (65.03%) are just

> a little bit above the current threshold and may also be affected very
soon.
> 
> The recent Serbian-Latin (51.50%) contribution was still not at the release

> threshold.
> 
> If Limewire estimates that these additions are not much critical for most 
> users, the solution will be to decrease the current release threshold from 
> 65% to 60% (but the Polish translation at 61.85% will still need updates 
> soon).
> 
> So there should be new calls to contributors in the support forums, and on 
> the home page... And some incitations given to significant contributors that

> will produce more than about 15% of progress for a wanted language).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Philippe.
> 
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-From Ryan.



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