Arabeyes - Rosetta: An invitation to a better cooperation ------------------------------
- *To*: Undisclosed.Recipients: ; - *Subject*: Arabeyes - Rosetta: An invitation to a better cooperation - *From*: Youssef Chahibi <chahibi at gmail dot com> - *Date*: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 11:51:46 +0000 - *Cc*: Documentation and Translation <doc at arabeyes dot org> - *Domainkey-signature*: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:subject:user-agent:cc:mime-version:content-disposition:date:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:to:message-id; b=Jpfq0ysflvzCoohRpE2rJLIKYOh4o/nymTFPWTW5BS1nbSCYeKKoJHCe0/Koq998YlO02Y2IZn4iJn+uvkYYl+VX1R97ucAZYErE3olgl9qXWqKfg5PEvpVsqsxK03iMWhtz1TpiHtFC82KmDw7YYCxEZoYTapZSu8is3Ullx3M= - *User-agent*: KMail/1.9.5 ------------------------------ السلام عليكم Let me introduce myself. I am Youssef Chahibi, KDE Arabic translations team coordinator and an active member in other Arabeyes (http://www.arabeyes.org) projects. Arabeyes is an umbrella project that aims to standardize and unify Arabic free software Arabization efforts. After years of unconcentrated Arabic support and translation projects, with each translator working in his/her side, Arabeyes was brought to existence to ensure a better future for Arabic in the free software world and to make Arabic translators and programmers work as one team in one sole promising project. After many years of work, despite the lack of contributors, specially from Arab countries, Arabeyes is still starving to make free software speak Arabic: Ongoing active translation projects are : Gnome, KDE, OpenOffice, Mozilla, etc, with some reaching the 100% limit. In parallel, there are general projects to make translations better and more homogenous, notably through the Technical Dictionary project (http://wiki.arabeyes.org/Technical_Dictionary) and the many discussions in the wiki, along with development work, like Ayaspell, the Arabic spell-checker, Gprayer, prayer time notification application, improvements to former projects and involvement in other free software projects. Arabeyes is not owned by anyone but the whole free software Arabic-speaking community. Hence the important of a strategic cooperation between Arabic free software translators. We had a look at Rosetta's capabilities and enjoyed its ease of use and the straight-forward translation project. However, we couldn't pass by the many issues we faced, duplicating your effort and underestimating your work. First, Rosetta's translation are only committed to Ubuntu repositories, therefore no other distribution benefit from them, none of your translation is committed to mothership projects (Gnome CVS, KDE SVN...). Second, Rosetta does only concentrate on current versions of Ubuntu packages, while we in Arabeyes translate the latest strings and are up-to-date with the latest mothership changes. In other words, you may be translation strings that will not appear in next versions. Third, Rosetta doesn't always import our translations that are the official repositories, you may be translating strings that have been already translated. Forth, we can't ensure a better quality of translations unless we work together in qualitative projects like the Technical Dictionary. Fifth, Rosetta is not a free software. Sixth, Rosetta Arabic translations are not QA-ed (Quality assured), this can't be easily made outside a unified project. Many translation teams, other than Arabic, are upset and worry about the future of Rosetta translations, the issue was raised many times in the gnome-i18n kde-doc-i18n mailing. For example, Gnome and Debian took the decision to prepare a Pootle server. We don't like seeing your translations going no where. Many former Rosetta users are now participating in Arabeyes.We want you and and us be brought together in a unified project. Despite the lack of contributors, we managed to make Gnome more than 96% translated, KDE is getting more and more contributors, with more translated strings than Gnome. We invite you to get in touch with the project (lists.arabeyes.org) or via our IRC channel #arabeyes in irc.freenode.net . - Youssef Chahibi
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