Suggestion from Krunose looks a good compromise::
"No translation should be removed. Whatever changes in original string,
mark translation as fuzzy and leave (old) translation in there. "
What about that?
diego
On 09/10/17 10:13, Krunose wrote:
On 07.10.2017 10:09, Mikhail Balabanov wrote:
Hello,
On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 12:53 AM, Serg Bormant <[email protected]> wrote:
2017-10-06 23:12 GMT+03:00 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos
<[email protected]>:
2017-10-06 10:45 GMT-05:00 Serg Bormant <[email protected]>:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=029f2fdc
What is your point?
It is very simple.
As I can see, Pootle has 135 languages now and some teams work offline.
If someone makes ONLY ONE cosmetic change in translatable strings,
everyone of 135 language teams should adopt this change.
As someone who translates practically alone for my language (mainly
stealing from my sleep), I agree that this is far from effective use of
volunteers’ often very scarce spare time. Saying ‘You’re volunteers
so if
you don’t want to put up with ♥♥♥♥, we’ll wait for someone who does’
doesn’t seem the best stance to take.
On the other hand, I’m also a stickler for correct typography, perfectly
composed layouts and such things and I think that ‘cosmetic’ changes
often
go a long way to make a product appear much more professional and
enjoyable
to work with.
Please, please, PLEASE make English-to-English translation and play
with spaces and capital letters there...
You realize that this suggestion makes no sense whatsoever?
Why not? Assign any unused language code for source and "en" for
translation.
This seems like an attractive option but it has problems of its own
(like:
when looking at the source, you will never be sure how the actual UI
looks
like; many teams may actually want to implement some of the changes
made to
the ‘English translation’ but they will not be notified of them and will
have to periodically search for such, etc.).
OTOH, setting that particular solution aside, I’m sure that other things
can be done to somewhat improve the situation. For example, couldn’t
some
mechanism be implemented to explicitly mark certain changes as
‘small’ or
‘cosmetic’ so that the translations in Pootle are just marked as ‘Needs
work’ instead of right out deleting them? Or even better, add a new
status
specifically meaning ‘Cosmetic change’ that allows re-confirming the
existing translations en masse if the changes are irrelevant to them?
Sometimes 'cosmetic' change could mean a difference. To me is
indicative if string is 1) in all caps, if 2) first letter is
capitalized and if 3) all letters are lowercased.
It's hard to mark what is cosmetic change from what was badly written
before and now is corrected. Fixing bad language in template is a must
and should not be optional.
That 'Month' ~ 'month' example may not make difference for Cyrillic
scripts but Latin scripts can and should change translation accordingly.
No translation should be removed. Whatever changes in original string,
mark translation as fuzzy and leave (old) translation in there.
Maybe there are volunteers who can make a script for Cyrillic writing
system which could read trough po files, convert strings to lowercase,
compare that to (Cyrillic) translation and change what needed if there
is a match. Maybe this could work for some other writing systems/scripts.
If 'cosmetic' changes need to be: better in one-word string then in
thous wrapping in two or three lines.
Kruno
Best regards,
Mihail Balabanov
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