Hi, On 10/02/2011 11:09 PM, Dirk Stöcker wrote:
the JOSM translations for Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic and Turkish don't fullfill the minimum standards for some time now. The translation status can be seen at http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Translations. I did not finally decide yet, but I tend to remove these languages in future releases when situation does not improve.
With JOSM continuously gaining more features, maintaining full translations, especially those spoken only by a small group of mappers or worse, only by translators who are not even familiar with mapping, becomes harder.
At the same time, I guess that "power users" are more likely to be able to use the English version of the program.
For this reason - but not for this reason alone - I would love to see something like a "JOSM light", a version of JOSM that brings the benefits of a stable, standalone, offline-capable editor without tons and tons of extra features.
I have no idea how this should be achieved. One way would certainly be to reverse course and put more stuff back into plugins - possibly improving the plugin architecture along the way. Trying to fork off a JOSM light would also be an option.
This would enable us to have an almost fully translated "JOSM light" that beginner users could use without having to fear the occasional un-translated English message.
At the same time, there would be clear priorities for translators - translate the JOSM light messages first, then progress to the more complex things needed for the full feature set. At the moment, a translator would not know if "You moved more than {0} elements." is more or less important to translate than "Please launch the preferences dialog and retrieve another OAuth token." ...
Even if we fail to make a proper "JOSM light", that last issue - knowing which texts are part of everyday mapping and which aren't - is something that we could investigate. Would it, for example, be possible to use different translation wrappers in the code - e.g. tr1(), tr2(), tr3() instead of only tr() - to denote importance?
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