Re: Making it easier on translators

[Robert Brady <robert suse co uk>]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Matthias Warkus wrote:

> Also, as far as I can see, the tradition is making lots and lots of
> small updates to .po files to keep them up-to-date, doing just a
> little polish and QA when a release is due. Oh, and by the way, it
> seems most teams already 'employ' enough translators. In the DE team,
> e.g., there is so much personnel that human resources are a non-issue
> and coordination is the major problem.

It's all very well for a large team like de, but you have to take into
account the little teams who are just starting, and for whom access to
.pot files _does_ make life much easier.

Most teams are nowhere near full coverage.

> infrastructure where improvements are much more necessary. A central
> CVS module table, for example, noting the purpose and next scheduled
> release date of every module, would already do a mighty lot for
> translations and many other efforts.

No-one is stopping you from doing that.

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Robert Brady
robert@suse.co.uk