Re: Remove glossary from status page?

[Damien Donlon <Damien Donlon Sun COM>]

Christian Rose wrote:
> tor 2003-08-21 klockan 14.14 skrev Abel Cheung:
> 
>>I suppose some others has brought this issue up before; in its current
>>state, gnome glossary inside /gnome-i18n/glossary (or gnome-glossary in
>>status pages) is quite useless. May I remove it from status pages so
>>that translators won't need to spend time on this cra^H^H^Hmodule?
> 
> 
> It actually fills a quite important role; for example, Sun translators
> use that as a reference for their translation work. When Sun translators
> had reviewed the Swedish translation, they obviously had looked at that
> document before to see what terminology we used, since they evidently
> had accepted our use of those terms. So if we hadn't had the glossary
> translated into Swedish, we would probably be much further away from the
> Swedish Sun translations in style and terminology.
> 
> Also, I've experienced that some new translation teams use the glossary
> as a start for their translation work. I can imagine that for languages
> where computer terms have not so many established translations,
> translating the glossary first can help establishing a common reference
> glossary for further translation work, and be very much useful for the
> individual translation team that way.
> 
> Also, whenever the glossary has been discussed, I remember Sun people
> have always been eager to hear suggestions for improvement.
> 
> So before any drastic actions are done to the glossary, it would perhaps
> be useful to suggest improvements first.

We are getting ready to commit our latest translations to a separate 
module called sun-l10n. Would it be of any benefit if we moved them to 
there? I agree with Christian that they should not be simply deleted. 
They are used for reference by our translation people. Which "status 
pages" is Abel referring to above? They aren't being picked up for 
inclusion in the translation statistics are they?! :o)

Regards,
Damien
> 
> 
> Christian
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