2010/10/27 Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <[email protected]>: > 2010/10/27 Jacob Nordfalk <[email protected]>: >> Ive looked at http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Ideas_for_Google_Code-in >> Do you really think anyone can: >> 1) translate a text of 34,268 bytes (the new language pair HOWTO) into >> another language >> 2) go through it for a new pair of languages. >> 3) When finished, upload to the Incubator. >> in.... 2-3 HOURS!??!?!!!!? >> Well, Ive tried that task when I started out. I might be extraordinary slow >> but just doing step 1) would take me at least half a day for Esperanto. >> Same goes for the other proposals: These <=18 age students must be really >> bright, but in general I would multiply all your estimations with a factor >>>3. >> >> Here is a proposal for what I would consider a realistic task for GCI: >> Add 50 nouns to apertium-sv-da. Check that the words work for boths >> directions (from Swedish to Danish and from Danish to Swedish). >> Time: 14 hours >> (install & compile: 4 hours. Understand the format of the 3 .dix files to >> edit: 2 hours. Adding the words: 4 hours. Checking translation in both >> directions and fix problems: 4 hours). > > The time estimates do seem rather low yes. However, I think they're > supposed to reflect only the work that's on that specific task (since > students can work on several tasks, so they won't install apertium for > each task...) > > The wiki page also does say "The time column gives the minimum > estimated amount of time that should be spent on the task. It does not > include time taken to install / set up apertium." (now boldfaced, as I > missed it the first time too)
Regarding that specific task; would it be better to split it into two? One for translating the howto, another for going through it for a new pair? I imagine that most of those who translate it into languages that the mentors know, know only languages that the mentors know and thus languages that are well-represented in apertium already... ;-) -Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
