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Flammie Pirinen wrote: |
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> 2005-10-19, Petteri Räty sanoi, jotta: |
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>>I thought that when I am bored I |
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> Join GDP Finnish translation team! We're still short one followup |
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> translator and pile of alt-arch stuff at least before getting official |
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> status and linkage. ;-) |
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I might one day one when I have the time. At the moment I think I am a |
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little too busy. Because I regularly touch metadata.xml files when |
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working with packages I think I will stick to translating those when I |
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feel like it. |
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>>might translate the longdescriptions |
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>>in metadata.xml files to Finnish. |
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> Hmm, can I suggest some QA or similar stuff for these before |
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> committing? I don't fully know what's the visibility of this stuff |
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> though, but I'd feel much nicer if they were at least proofread or peer |
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> evaluated once before providing them to public. I don't mean to |
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> question your Finnish capabilities of course, I've just participated in |
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> Finnish localisations of Open Source things long enough to know how bad |
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> Finnish some people can produce. |
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I think herdstat can use this data but that's about it I think. |
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Considering that every developer can add the English longdescriptions |
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there without any peer review, I think it would be an overkill for |
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Finnish translations. But if this is a problem I can of course run some |
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diffs through you or something. |
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> Well, I'm no expert on Portage tree stuff of course, but isn't that a |
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> bit too complex for the problem. I mean, if some description gets |
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> changed so crucially that translations need to be updated -- which as |
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> far as I understand shouldn't be too often -- wouldn't it be enough to |
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> just drop the old translations? If you really need automatic |
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> notification on changes in these things, cvs mailing list or CIA bot is |
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> easy way to see them. |
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That would work of course, but if this data is one day going to be used |
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by more users then having data marked as outdated is IMHO better than |
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not having any data at all. With the way the Portage tree works at the |
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moment the removal would fast reach users too. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |
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