Hello Carsten, Am Mi., 3. Mai 2023 um 15:56 Uhr schrieb Carsten Agger <[email protected]>:
> Hello, > > I'm new to this list. I've been using Ubuntu and free software since > 2005 and have also been active in the general movement. I am currently a > member of the General Assembly of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). > > In my day job, I'm working as an architect on free/open source products, > currently only projects specifically related to our work for the > government of Greenland. > > My question/problem is this: I'd like to understand how much work it > would take to localize Ubuntu into a completely new language where no > volunteers were available but commercial translation is. > > > How much work would it be to translate the standard edition of Ubuntu > with all pre-installed programs? In terms of hours or weeks? How many > words? > > I'm trying to see how I might arrive at an estimate. It would, of > course, also be necessary to do technical work like creating new > language packages. > > Specifically, I'd like to see Ubuntu translated into Greenlandic (an > Inuit language also known as Kalaallisut). There is a project for this > on Launchpad, but it doesn't seem to have much activity since 2010, and > I suspect there aren't enough volunteers available - not that > surprising, since there's only about 60,000 speakers of the language. > I don't know the exact numbers, but a lot of the content would be from the GNOME desktop environment. The GNOME desktop user interface [1] contains about 43500 messages with 185.000 words or 1.1 million characters (numbers extracted from English originals). Not all of GNOME UI needs to be translated in order to achieve a reasonably complete desktop experience -- one should rather assess and prioritize according to some criteria. Some strings are "GConf" configuration strings not accessible via the normal user interface, and they won't be very high priority. Also, some GNOME modules are developer tools. With the full UI translated, twice a year we need to update about 2000 messages (maybe a little bit less nowadays?) to keep up with software updates across the GNOME codebase. There are additional Ubuntu-specific strings on Launchpad such as the installer. Those would not exceed a few thousand messages AFAIK. Maybe someone knows better. I hope these figures are helpful. Best regards Ask [1] https://l10n.gnome.org/languages/da/gnome-44/ui/ (Danish) > > > > Best, > Carsten > > > > -- > ubuntu-translators mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators >
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