Re: Tools to make more easy the translations QA

[Keld Jřrn Simonsen <keld dkuug dk>]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:54:14PM +0200, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> Den 12 Jul 2001 11:43:43 +0200, skrev Keld Jřrn Simonsen:
> > I also think it is a good idea. And furthermore some 15 Gnome
> > translators discussed this at the Guadec2 conference and
> > and agreed with you.
> > 
> > 
> 
> The next question is "What do we add in bugzilla"
> 
> I think that having the following two components added in
> all products in bugzilla will be enough:
> 
> - i18n (for bugs where the program isn't internationalized)
> - l10n (for bugs in the translations themselves)
> 
> Comments?

Yes, we had a whole discussion on this at guadec2.
Here is what I catched from the discussion then:

> 2. Error reporting
> 
> There are two kinds of error reports, one is on the original
> msgid's, the other is on the translated msgstr's.
> 
> If the bug is something that  relates to the operation of the
> program the message in error should be brought back to the
> developers team. This is a problem, as the message in
> question is in many cases displayed translated. 
> It should be possible to write an error report in the translated
> language, which then would not be understood by the developers, so
> it should be sent to the translators error-list, who then
> after translation could forward it to the developers.
> 
> If the error is one in translation, then the message should
> be sent to the translator, or the translator team.
> The email addres to report translation errors should be listed
> in the "about" box for all programs, and integrated in the
> bug reporting system, bug-buddy. There could then be a
> list for each language centrally located for all gnome 
> packages, and with some ticketing system integrated.
> For the same language there could be different error-addresses
> for different packages.
> 
> It was proposed to give every message a message number.
> I dont think we agreed on that.
> 
Kind regards
keld