Dear Andrea, I want to try Pootle and see how it translates English to Tamil. Can you guide me ?
With Warm Regards V.Kadal Amutham 919444360480 914422396480 On 1 March 2013 04:54, Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25/02/2013 Rob Weir wrote: > >> And maybe that starts getting too geeky when we post PO files in >> tar.bz2 format, a format unheard of to Windows users who comprise 90%+ >> of our users? >> > > This is surely a steep learning curve. And I believe we do lose volunteers > at this step. > > Look around. How many >> volunteers have come through asking to help about Hebrew, Greek and >> Portuguese? Isn't a non-optimal that they haven't managed to >> coordinate on the translation? Isn't it non-optimal that we have no >> idea whether this is even being worked on? That is the problem we're >> facing. >> > > And Pootle is the solution. A working Pootle installation, with a > well-thought access policy, allows effortless collaboration and monitoring. > > we need to help with >> the coordination side as well. And this might mean smart use of >> technology rather than just complaining that technology is hard. >> > > In March we can try the BugZilla way. We can probably even start the > registration process at > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/**createaccount.cgi<https://issues.apache.org/ooo/createaccount.cgi>leaving > to volunteers the only task of confirming their e-mail address. > This should be simple enough for everybody, if we explain it properly. > > But in the medium-long term I really believe that Pootle will make the > difference. > > Regards, > Andrea. >
