Hello Damjan, Here are some references from Swahili team:
The first glossary of 700 terms too us one month work, the second glossary was developed during the translation work. We have translated the 18.000 strings of OO 1.1.3 in 5 weeks with 4 translators, the review has taken another 3 weeks. 8 weeks/5 translators. If you have 4 translators full time and a reviewer (linguistic background) working 1 day a week... you can translate 18.000 messages in 100 days. In our case I was providing snapshots of the process to the translators and at the same time i was hacking around the "build system" to include the swahili locale, spellchecker etc. A good rule of the thumb is: one translator can handle between 2000-3000 messages per week, 350 strings per day. One reviewer can review 3000 strings per day. I just realised that the figures are very similar to the Khmer project... Something that i find very important is to have pre-builds during the process... the quality of the product is always much better when you have a chance to react and see a result. Aep, leaving tanzania very soon. Any other languages out there that need help? > Damjan, > > Our experiece is that it takes about two months to develop a Glossary of > computer terms, if you do not have one, and that it is a fundamental > step before you start with open office. > > Here is something I wrote about how to make Glossaries: > http://wiki.localisationdev.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GlossaryCreation > > by the way this is a nice site for people starting language-centered > localization projects. > > We transalted (and double checked) the 22.000 messages from OOo 2.0 in > four months, with a three person team. This timeframe considers that the > people who translate are the ones who did the Glossary, or work closely > with them. > > Transalting the 32.000 messages of the help has taken another 4 months. > > We expect to spend the next two months working on developing > documentation and training materials for OOo 2.0 (with a six person team). > > Javier > > > > > > > If you start now with m79 > > > Damjan wrote: > > >>>I would recommend starting with the latest (m79). If you use a version > >>>before m71 the upgrade conversion is sligthly more difficult later. > >>>Javier > >>> > >>> > >>Just downloaded the latest (m79) POT files from ftp.janik.cz. We will > >>be starting the translation process from early next week with 3 > >>full-time translators. > >> > >> > > > >Are you starting the translation from scratch or you'll reuse something > >you did before? > > > >How long do you think the whole process will take (with those 3 > >full-time translators)? > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
