Glen, I would like to keep both languages in. They are only missing 5 or 6 out of 563 keys, that's not a bad score at all. I can live with the warning message it gives us.
kind regards, Harry On 8 June 2013 16:26, Glen Mazza <glen.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Team, I tweeted twice and emailed Janne three days ago, no response from > him, but we didn't get an update on Finnish. I'd like to retire it from > our distribution so we're not perpetually seeing a warning message in our > build for it. Most Finns, like Janne presently does, are going to use > English anyway so everyone around the world can understand their Wiki. As > it's in the source control archives, we can always resurrect it relatively > quickly if we get a complaint, providing the complainant translates the > missing strings for us. :) > > My view, if somebody on the team from country X wants to translate JSPWiki > into Xese, that's fine, but once they leave the project, if it's a minor > language like Lithuanian or Latvian or Finnish we look like idiots tweeting > for translation help. The maintenance of too many languages also > constrains us, as it makes it more difficult to change screens and the text > on them. > > We could also retire Russian, as it's missing a handful of strings as > well, but Russian has about 30 times as many speakers as Finnish (155 > million vs. 5 million) so I don't personally mind its retention even if we > get warning messages for it. > > Glen > >
