Hi Rovanion, thank you for your proposal. We are always looking for ways of improving the translatoin process.
Am 01.06.2010 21:19, schrieb Rovanion Luckey: > There should be a comment field for each and every translated string on > launchpad. I have to tell you that this is not a new proposal. It also relates to the "translator comment" feature in the gettext file format (po files), although I think you have a full blown discussion feature in mind, like on bugs etc. > The reason for this is communication. Many of us translators do not know > each other in any way. We do not have any way of communication than the > translations we do in launchpad. There once in a while happens that > there are different suggestions for ways to translate a string, but > there is no way for the translators to communicate in between each other > and discuss the specific translation except for direct messages. Communication between translators and central translation standards are very important to achieve a high quality in translations. Usually the translators for a specific language within a translation group organize themselves around a mailing list and possible a wiki. Ubuntu translation teams and their web pages can be found here: https://translations.launchpad.net/+groups/ubuntu-translators For non-Ubuntu translation teams please look here: https://translations.edge.launchpad.net/+groups/launchpad-translators So, discussion is essential and setting up translation guidelines is very much encouraged. > To allow the translations to become as good as absolutely possible > commenting is a must. It will both directly result in better > translations and less friction between translators. I do agree that it would be useful for a translator to leave *a* comment with the translation to explain why this translation was chosen. For the actual *discussion* there are other means that already exist, as mentioned above. There is a very old (5 years) bug about this. https://bugs.launchpad.net/rosetta/+bug/25 Launchpad is open source so you are welcome to contribute and implement this feature. Please read https://dev.launchpad.net/ about how that works and come back to us for support before you begin. ;) Cheers, Henning _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
