Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Translatinos in 1.0

[Nils Kneuper]

Yann Dirson wrote:

> On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:44:07PM +0200, Nils Kneuper wrote:
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> > I think we should take out TDH soon, so that translators do not work
> > on it anymore when it will not be in 1.0.
> >    
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> If we're going to drop TDH from official release, it makes sense.  We
> could move it to the download server, for example.
>
> But maybe we could provide more support for 3rd-party campaigns, like
> a CVS module.  That may help to coordinate work on these, to get them
> in shape for official endorsement.
>  
I also think, we should put TDH onto the campaign server.  Making the 
possiblity of User-Campaigns being used directly out of a cvs or svn-rep 
is a good idea, since there already is such a rep (wescamp-i18n). But 
the problem is, that we have a feature freeze atm. So this should be a 
feature for post 1.0.

> > I think we do have to setup a list of rules, to estimate, when a
> > translation is in 1.0 and when not.
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> Why should we ?  We could instead use such criteria for advertising
> translations, and/or maybe to tag them as "complete" i=or "incomplete"
> in the selection dialog, but I do not think we should stop shipping
> the other ones.  It would IMHO harm the project, by letting
> translators think we do not value their work.
>
> OTOH, having such a thing like an "official translation" label may
> encourage teams to reach this goal, much like isaac's stat page create
> a friendly competition to get to 100% - which is maybe a distant goal
> nowadays because of the amount of work to get there, so I would
> welcome a more reasonable goal.
>
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>  
I think that it is not good, to ship translations that are only partly 
done. If eg. in the translation of a campaign some sentences in a 
mission are in english, some in another language, it will destroy the 
whole atmosphere. I think this is at least the same, as if we shipped 
units, where the images would be a kind of little sketch. You would vote 
against delivering such with 1.0. So do i vote against delivering files 
for translations that are only done very partitionally only. If there 
are 5strings missing in textdomain, it would be not such a big problem. 
But if only 20% are done, eg some unit descriptions are translated, 
others not, it woulc not be good.

> > - The mainfile should be rather complete (~99%)
> > - wesnoth-lib should be complete (100%)
> > - wesnoth-httt should be rather complete (>95%)
> >    
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> Eg, we could have a new view in the stats page about those "core
> translations", and this should maybe become the default view, instead
> of "all official domains".
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Good idea. I would welcome this.
Greets,
Nils Kneuper aka Ivanovic