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On 05/23/11 15:53, Markus Bergelin wrote: |
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> I am willing to help out in that regard, and would appreciate some |
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> help as to were to start. |
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Hi Markus, |
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sorry for a late reply. A good start is getting familiar with how we |
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work; there's a short howto for translators at our web [1] along with a |
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few pointers to more technical documentation [2]. |
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After you'll have read that, you should know *how* to translate, how to |
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deal with our XML files etc etc. What you won't know is the missing |
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part, though, and that is that annoying fact that translating stuff |
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takes a lot of work and requires an enormous amount of patience. You'll |
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probably start working alone, translating the most important documents. |
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Later on, maybe after half a year, a couple of people will join you, |
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trying to help. Their contributions will be of varying quality, some |
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will require full rewrites, others would be great. You'll still waste |
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hours proofreading the texts, carefully comparing their translations to |
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the English originals. Nobody will step up and help you with keeping the |
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translations up to date, though, because translating new stuff is |
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Creative and Sexy and Cool, but maintaining existing stuff is boring and |
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uncool, because your creativity is vastly limited. And that's the |
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situation where most people eventually give up and declare the |
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translation effort more or less dead. I should know, I'm a lead of the |
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(dead) Czech translation. |
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Well, if I did not manage to drive you off yet, congratulations, you're |
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probably that kind of guy we need. So, please go through the documents |
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and start filing translations via Bugzilla. |
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If I did manage to sway your opinion away from translating, I've got a |
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good news for you -- we could use a few hands with good skills in |
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English. The GDP is currently severely understaffed, and having a look |
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at our open bugs [3] should tell you what needs attention. |
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Have fun, |
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Jan |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/doc/translators-howto.xml |
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[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/#doc_chap4 |
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[3] |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=CONFIRMED&bug_status=IN_PROGRESS&product=Doc%20Other&product=Docs-developer&product=Docs-user&product=Documentation |
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