Sorry, forgot to copy this one to translate-pootle. From the mailman- i18n list.
On 14/07/2006, at 5:54 PM, Clytie Siddall wrote: > > On 13/07/2006, at 11:42 AM, Ace Suares wrote: > >> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 08:48, Clytie Siddall wrote: >> >>> You might like to look at the Debian/Wordforge plans for a complete >>> translation infrastructure. [7]. I believe this is the future of >>> i18n. >> >> Since I am using launchpad now, I am confronted with rosetta. What >> do you >> think of rosetta vs wordforge? > > In summary: > > Rosetta is not free software, Wordforge is free software. > > Rosetta has serious issues with access control and quality assurance > which Wordforge does not. > > Rosetta is designed to work with one distro, Ubuntu, where the > Wordforge tools are designed to work in many different situations, > online, offline, as a backend or frontend, interfacing with other > translation tools and structures, whatever the upstream project > chooses. > > Rosetta is there, for Ubuntu users, so it's convenient. It doesn't > work well outside Ubuntu, and has caused conflicts and a lot of > wasted time for other projects. For example, the files on Rosetta are > not current. You can sit down there for hours and translate a file > which hasn't been translated before. You later find out that > upstream, at the project which actually created that file, it has > already been translated. > > The authorative work for any project can only occur under its > management, or via direct cooperation with it. Rosetta doesn't work > with the upstream projects at all. People logging into Rosetta right > now can be changing our Mailman translations, and we won't even know > about it. Due to the lack of quality control, the translations in > Rosetta are often of low quality, causing the upstream project to > receive outraged emails and bug reports about files they had already > quality-checked, but which have been altered in Rosetta! > > Wordforge, for example Pootle, which is the online/offline > translation interface, does not have any of these problems, and acts > as an optional and carefully-coordinated part of upstream workflow. > It's an excellent free-software project which supports the standards > and works closely with any upstream project which chooses to use it. > I recommend it. > > from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm > Việt hóa phần mềm tự do) > http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailman-i18n mailing list > Posts: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-i18n/ > clytie%40riverland.net.au from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do) http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Translate-pootle mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle
