Re: Cathedral, bazaar models and DL

[Ihar Hrachyshka <ihar hrachyshka gmail com>]

Hi Andre!
Actually few months ago the project for Belarusian computer terminology
normalization started so hopefully we'll finally get common glossary for
different be-l10n teams which we can point our contributors to.
As for now, there is no Belarusian glossary for GNOME. But as I said the
problem with contributions is not directly related to missing glossary.
It's rather a problem of general literacy.

On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 20:30 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 15.05.2010, 13:38 +0300 schrieb Ihar Hrachyshka:
> > but in Belarusian (which I coordinate for GNOME) there are big problems
> > with spelling, and grammar, and lexics, and consistency among all (!)
> > contributions. And situation seems not to advance though every time I
> > get new translation I send review results to translator.
> > 
> > This situation is the result of current minor language status and lack
> > of fluent language speakers with good technical knowledge in community. 
> 
> Does Belarussian have a public glossary?
> Assuming that those English terms that can receive several different
> translations in another language are similar it might be worth to check
> existing public glossaries of other languages in GNOME to identify those
> English terms and then using something like http://open-tran.eu/ or
> grep'ing in the .po files of a local checkout of all modules to find all
> uses of them in Belarussian.
> 
> I wonder whether GNOME I18N should have a centralized wikipage listing
> links to existing glossaries of languages.
> 
> andre