Re: [gui-dev] Locales Warning

Justin Schmidt <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 12:57:16 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.network.gnutella.limewire.gui.devel
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If this is the case, perhaps 50% is a better threshold than 2/3.


On Jun 9, 2005, at 12:51 PM, Ryan Keppel wrote:

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