On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:05:11PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 07:37:19PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > > debconf way's advantage is that maintainer is in control and if he > > understands the translation at least a bit, he can spot mistakes and > > translator's misunderstandings (happened to me). > > With centralized Packages files, maintainer is out of the way. > > disaccord: > - the maintainer don't have really controll of the translated debconf > templates. He don't speaking >3 languages and he can only get the > templates and include this or not.
that is true, however, it happened to me that I got a german template, and although I have only very basic knowledge of german, I was able to spot that the translator clearly misunderstood the english original. > - He delay only the translation without any improvement. Not really. Under my (hmm... not proposal, since I am not proposing it) suggestion, all the work goes as usual. Only some packages have additional translation from maintainers, and these translations needn't be supplied by translating teams > - a maintainer is not out of the way with centralized translations. > He can translated this own Packages and add his languages in the > central database. which means additional work for him... > I see no pros, but many cons with a decentral translation. > > > As for debconf templates, they would benefit from centralized > > database too, but unfortunately they _have to_ be present in a > > package, so I see no clear way of improving current situation. > > If we have a centralized database for the debconf templates, the live > of the translators whould be easier. But we don't have it, and we must > play this game without it. > Or create it :-) Btw another thought just crossed my mind: in localized distributions, what would happen when a crowd of uninformed users start sending bugreports in their native languages? Good-bye BTS.... -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
