2011/11/28 Ondřej Čertík <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: >> I agree with this. We have to consider many factors, like what the > > I also agree with Ronan. > >> document is, and who can translate it/verify the translation. Right >> now, we have exactly one person per language (except I guess we have >> two for Czech), so our ability to verify translations, much less make >> them is very limited. If we tried to do it outside of Code-In, we >> would have to drop the review requirement, as there's simply no one >> else to verify it, which makes me a little uneasy about it. As was >> mentioned earlier, it's better to have no translation than a poor >> translation, and while I'm not saying that anybody is poor at >> translating, the fact is, with no quality assurance, we simply don't >> know how good it is. > > We should only translate things, that we can verify to make sure that > the language looks good and also > that the burden on us is acceptable. > > I wasn't aware of the gettext framework much, until I spent a lot of > time with it yesterday and I must say, that it's actually very nice > and manageable. For example, you can use the "poedit" > (http://www.poedit.net/) program to edit/translate the po files and so > on. > >> >> But I agree that some things, like the webpage or Wikipedia articles, >> are very good to translate for outreach purposes. >> >> So Ondrej, with your work, is >> http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2011/7127301 >> still relevant? If so, can you update it with what still needs to be >> done? Otherwise, let's close it. > > In fact, I have already updated the issue with the task description, > which is this one: > > http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2795 > > suggesting to implement the gettext framework for Sphinx, as Jo > independently also suggested above. It's invigorating that I > independently either implemented or suggested the same things as Jo, > so I think there is good agreement on using gettext. > > Ondrej >
Great. Let's do it then. Don't feel like you have to not fix it to leave it for some student because it's a GCI task. If it will make life easier to just fix it yourself, please do so. Aaron Meurer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
