Ah, just now I read your e-mail Jane... I'll republish my concerns from http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13467#comment:10 , maybe the other guys here can chime in...
1) I have to agree with Demetris, in that it's a big ol' chunk of text that has been added - I should know, I just spent a couple hours translating it all :) Some really seem redundant (really? explaining drag'n'dropping?), or describing usages that have been in place since 2.7. That being said, I did learn a couple things, mostly because I've never batch-edited posts before, for instance :) 2) I can't help be be concerned on the supplementary strain this might put on shared-hosts installs, with limited memory. We at WPFR already often advise users to disable the translated (along with plugins) before launching the WP update, as this frees quite a lot of memory. Adding so much text might mean that more shared-hosts will be fighting failing updates. I might be wrong, but has this been taken into account? -x. On 25 May 2010 17:05, Jane Wells <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, translators. I'm writing with some news that could be viewed as > wonderful or annoying, depending on your point of view. We're adding actual > help text to all (well, at least most) of the Help tabs in WordPress 3.0. As > you probably know, those tabs have largely been empty except for links to > the Codex and Support Forums since they were instituted in 2.7. It was > always our intention to populate these with screen-specific help, and with > links to specific Codex pages for more information, but somehow other > features always took priority. With all the hype that 3.0 has gotten, and > the huge number of people publicly talking about their plans to start using > WordPress when it comes out, it seemed like we should rectify the situation, > and right now we are adding the help text to each screen. We have about half > a dozen screens in since yesterday, and will be adding many more today > before we are up against the RC/string freeze deadline. Any that aren't in > by the time everything else is ready to go will be left out, so we're adding > the help text to the most-used/questioned screens first. > > This will be *wonderful* because we've been putting it off for almost 2 > years, and it's about time those Help tabs started doing what they were > meant to do. Confused users will have a first line of support built into the > application, which is something we've needed for a long time. > > This will be *annoying* because it's a lot of text to get translated in a > short time. I'm sorry for that; our original scope for 3.0 had us releasing > over a month ago, and with less hype, which is why help text wasn't an > official planned feature. Hopefully you will agree with me that the > frustration of this late-ish addition of text strings will be outweighed by > benefit to the millions of WordPress users worldwide. If there's anything I > can do to help, please let me know. For example, would it be useful for me > to ask people to volunteer to help with this effort via the official > @wordpress Twitter account? There are many international followers. > > Thanks for your hard work, > Jane > _______________________________________________ > wp-polyglots mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-polyglots > -- Xavier Borderie _______________________________________________ wp-polyglots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-polyglots
