Hi, I agree with Lars. It's essential that it becomes VERY easy to contribute words. We need to make thousands of people do small contributions without effort. Yours, Per Tunedal
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014, at 23:33, Lars Aronsson wrote: > On 02/04/2014 10:47 PM, Francis Tyers wrote: > > Out of the 39 or so language pairs that we have in trunk/, only two or > > three could be considered to offer "state of the art" performance with > > [...] > > Any thoughts ? > -- snip-- > > It seems much harder to do small, incremental > improvements of the Swedish (-Danish) language > pair of Apertium. And quite easy to cause chaos. > I made a few contributions in August 2013, but > then I got ideas for some radical changes, but I > couldn't predict if they were net improvements, > or if they could have dangerous side effects. > > Apertium would benefit if the creation (and testing) > of new paradigms was more clearly separated > from adding new words to the dictionaries. > These are two different roles, that require > different skills. Right now, everything is code > that is submitted to SVN, which requires the > programmer-like ability to edit large text files. > Adding words to the dictionaries should be more > on the simple wiki editing skill level. > > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) > Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications > Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. > Read the Whitepaper. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Apertium-stuff mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
