--- Matthew East <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Hi there, Hi
> I've just downloaded some translations of the > desktopguide from the > ubuntu-docs source package. I was extremely > disappointed to find that > the translations, almost without exception, > introduce hundreds of errors > into the xml. This means that I (and others) will > need to spend several > hours going through all of the xml to fix errors. I apologise for the inconvenience! I was checking the italian translations in these days, and found a couple of errors! I'm trying to clean them out! > I have posted guidelines about how to translate > documentation on this > list many times before, and I did so again when > announcing translation > in this release cycle. It boils down to one simple > rule - don't play > with the code!!! Specifically: > > * Do not rearrange groups of tags - they will break! > * Do not translate tags, or entities (such as > &hello;) > * To make sure you get the tags and code right - > copy and paste it, > don't copy it by eye, because you will make > mistakes. > > Team leaders - please ensure that when guidelines > are posted to this > list, they are actually conveyed to the translators, > and that people are > not translating documentation without having a good > grasp of these basic > guidelines. I'm planning on inserting a new section in the italian wiki (I'll do it after the transaction) on how to work with the documentation and the use of the docbook tag. > The use of Rosetta for documentation was never a > perfect solution, and > if we can't improve this situation, we may have to > think about another > system - such as asking translators to build the xml > and check for > errors before submitting it to the documentation > team. I think Rosetta shuold give the possibility to restrict the access of some translation to only a group of people. I know it's not in the spirit of collaboration, but in this way there would be more control over the translation process and the quality of the translation. Milo Casagrande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FSF Member #3788 <www.fsf.org> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Poco spazio e tanto spam? Yahoo! Mail ti protegge dallo spam e ti da tanto spazio gratuito per i tuoi file e i messaggi http://mail.yahoo.it -- ubuntu-translators mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators
