Re: www.gnome.org

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 29 Oct 2008, at 22:58, Petr Kovar wrote:

> Thilo Pfennig <tp pfennigsolutions de>, Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:33:08  
> +0100:
>
> > Petr Kovar schrieb:
> > > Otherwise, it seems to be quite controversial and, may I say,
> > > disrespectful towards translators, whose work, in my humble
> > > translator's opinion, is as good and as bad as any other  
> > > contributions.
> > Its obvious. Professional translation is a very complex task.
>
> The same way as is the professional software development.

Very true.  Unfortunately, of course, its easier to 'hide' poor  
quality code, than to hide poor quality translations.

If something on the user's screen is badly- or wrongly-translated, or  
a translation is missing altogether, the user will notice almost  
immediately, and the perceived quality of the software is instantly  
reduced.

On the other hand, if the software runs 10% slower than it could  
because it's poorly written, or leaks some memory every now and again,  
most users probably won't even notice.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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