Hi Bert,
Bert Meersma schrieb:
...
So some of the germanophone project members started to review all of
the german help files in November 05. So far, about 70% of the help
files have been reviewed. More than 50% of those files showed errors.
While the issues are only P3 or less in QA-terms, they ranged from
little to top priority for linguists. Top Priority means, that a user
was not able get a functionality working after reading the file. And
we had many of such errors.
Ok .. about 500 Issues have been filed so far, 450 are fixed (but are
not integrated yet). This amount could only be handled, because a
process for this task was discussed beforehand.
I think this differs from our process, since we're collecting all
errors in Calc sheets provided by Sun. Are we the only ones who work
that way?
I think, you are speaking about the l10n-QA-matrix? Afaik, Italian
community worked with that.
We had a look at the matrix, but after all, it didn't fit our needs, as
it's focus is translation. But we found a horrible mixture of errors:
- Typos
- Translation errors
- Inconsitencies in the UI
- old strings (that have been absolutely correct translated and caused
the most troubles)
- Errors in english help
QA matrix will be used in a later stage, if most of the errors are only
translation errors or typos (at least .. o the theory says).
A second possible task would be a review of the german UI-Strings, as
they are inconsistend in several cases.
We started with the UI strings. Reason for that is that if you change
UI strings you also have to change the help files. Starting off with a
"sound" UI prevents you from having to edit a lot help files afterwards.
We knew about some inconsistend UI-stings when we started the help
review. But we found even more during the review. For the moment, we
need skip such problems in the help review, mark them for UI review and
then come back again.
If we had unlimited ressources, we could do the UI review right now ..
but .. well, I think, you know the problems ;-)
BTW.: Rafaella was telling about the nl commuity as a example and
reference for Sun - community - vendor colaboration in localisation. So
.. maybe we can learn from you :-)
André
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