On 12/7/06, Ivo Hinkelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
>> > yes, at the moment basically for storage and resource reasons
>> > (building full installation sets takes much longer than language
>> > packs and require much more space) we are providing full
>> > installation sets for the languages Sun is releasing StarOffice/
>> > StarSuite into and language packs for all other languages for which
>> > the N-L Communitites provide at least 80% of GUI translation.
>>
>> I didn't know that there was any difference between the languages
>> supported in StarOffice and OpenOffice. Thankyou to both you and Ain
>> for explaining this. Is there any reason why this difference exists?
>> I would have thought any software project would want to release in as
>> many languages as possible, as long as the translations were QA'd.
>
>
> A company cannot release commercial product in languages and countries
> where they have no infrastructure for commercial level support. :)
> Were good when such a independent infrastructures will grow on base of
> OO.o, sure thats one of the final goals of all native language teams.
as Rafaella already mentioned, the only reason why we can not provide
full installation sets for all languages is the lack of (disc) space and
(CPU) resources. We are simply not able to deal with 60+ Languages x 4
Plattforms ...
Yes, I see, therefore you have to put things somehow in order of importance :)
Unfortunately I have read latest release meetings protocols only
_after_ I wrote previous messages. :(
I think it is good idea to start at least with languages, having high
percent of translated strings and approved quality.
Maybe it is reasonable to raise count of languages eg. to 20 or 30. I
have no idea how to automate determining which languages will be "in",
other translation projects have a central statistics page (kde, gnome,
suse). It makes a bit competitive feeling too, every time I start SUSE
translation, I look at stats and think, that this time I leave 2 or 3
languages behind my back ;)
ain
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