Re: Evolution is out, apparently

[Arafat Medini <lumina silverpen de>]

I agree with Ole here, at the end it is all about building a gnome
environment to compete against existing software products from Apple m$
Sun etc...
So at the end we have to have an answer or every major app out there...
This means That having evo translated is a must with it being in 2.5 or
not...
Well i think inclusion in 2.8 simply means (for me) more time to polish
the existing translation and to work slowly on it ;)

yours
Arafat Medini
Arabic gnome maintainer

Am Sa, den 31.01.2004 schrieb Ole Laursen um 19:54:
> Danilo Segan <danilo@gnome.org> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > If you already started, the work is not wasted, but it won't count
> > toward "supportedness" when it comes to Gnome 2.6 D&DP.
> >
> > (Somehow I doubt anyone passed on Evolution this late in the process,
> > and I consider this the worst possible scenario: first add a gigantic
> > module so all translators around the world would cheer, and then
> > remove it when most of the translators actually translated most of it)
> 
> Hey, come on!
> 
> Maybe it is because Danish is not near the 80% limit, and maybe it is
> because I have not concerned myself with Evolution as of yet. But
> really! "Officially supported" or not is nothing!
> 
> What is important is our users. What they see - what we enable them to
> do. Our translation work is about getting the free software out to
> people. To show them that there is an alternative to Microsoft's and
> Apple's and everyone else's proprietary software.
> 
> It's about working towards better software. About cooperating and
> doing things for fun. Your work on Evolution may easily be more
> important for end users than your work on the rest of the desktop
> combined.
> 
> 
> If people feel very bitter about the 80% limit, if it is hampering our
> process, let's get rid of it. It's just a marketing gimmick and it
> doesn't even reflect the end user experience anyway.