Re: red-carpet pos

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

val wrote:
> brief history:
> 1. i translated RC-0.9 to russian, patched red-carpet.glade and sent all stuff to one of the maintainer.
> 2. rc-0.9.1 was released without any i18n changes i did.
> 3. rc-0.9.2 was released without any i18n changes.
> 4. i updated my translation, patch glade file against 0.9.2 and sent all to red-carpet@ximian.com
> I wrote them, that my "patch" may be repeated by check "Save libglade strings" in Glade
> and that they can found translation for RC to some languages at gnome cvs in module gnome-i18n/extra-po/red-carpet.
> 
> Atm i receive no response.
> I'm worried, coz many translators spent their time with translation of this program.
> I understand, that "non-english" (and the russian at first of all)
> is not in the zone of marketing interests for Ximian.
> May be i'll drop ru-translation support for any ximian-closed source.
> 
> So, please sorry me for time you spent on RC-translation.

Yes. In my experience, most people at Ximian in general are often
uninterested in fixing i18n problems (there are some but they are few),
and the Red Carpet maintainers are the most noteworthy. They don't even
answer any e-mails that have something to do with translations (noone I
know of who have ever contacted RC people, either directly or through
their mailing list, with an i18n question/patch/translation has ever
recieved a response), and they seem to simply silently reject all
patches that have something to do with i18n, since they never end up in
the sources.

It would'nt surprise me if even Red Carpet 1.0 is released without any
i18n support whatsoever.

So my advise would be to any translator that has ever thought about
translating Red Carpet - forget about it. Your time is better spent with
translating any other application (that hopefully has maintainers more
clueful with the importance of non-English language support).


Christian