On 24 September 2010 07:12, Karsten Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:04:31PM +0800, Tommy He wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Since the call on
http://cut.gd/qFgE , I got six responses with
> interesting on translating work of TOSW so far. Not a big number but a
> fairly acceptable start.
Very nice.
> We had couples of discussions on the process of translation work (in
> Chinese ;p ) during the weekend and here are some points:
>
> 1. Help for upstream (perhaps from this mail list?) is needed to get
> the XML up to date and POT/PO generated. If possible, it would be nice
> to split into chapters. One POT/PO per chapter is kind of handy to
> allocate the job.
We have work to do in the wiki that will restructure the content quite
a bit. I think we should do that before we make a new POT/PO, since
it will change the location of many strings.
I do not want to lost the momentum and interest, though. Maybe there
are some of the chapters that can be made ready sooner, with others
coming soon?
Oops, one of the translators has already done Chapter 3. Hope that's a
relatively stable chapter. Perhaps someone could give a hint on the
ready-to-translating chapters? None of us would want the translators'
work gone in void.
> 2. reStructuredText is mentioned as an alternative to POT/PO
> translation process by Zoom.Quiet (also on this mail list,
>
http://cut.gd/zncs), an experienced book translator in Python field
> (OpenBookProject:
http://cut.gd/MUzR). Personally I have not got all
> the advantages of rST translation. But judged from his achievements,
> it may be a good option to consider. Perhaps Zoom.Quiet could explain
> a bit about it?
I'll reply to that message.
Thank you for that.
> 3. No matter using POT/PO or rST, there should be a place to
hold
> those POT/PO files for easy distributing and reviewing. For me, I
> would say
Transifex.net because of the pleasant Web-based PO editor. I
> have been cooperating with Shotwell project on that for quite a few
> releases and feeling happy about it. Though not as powerful as other
> offline tools, it's quite handy for the one who wants to contribute
> his/her lunch time to TOSW in work place. PS: By now none of the
> prospected translators has Git commit privilege.
My plan had been to use the Transifex instance at
translate.fedoraproject.org, because it is integrated with
fedorahosted.org. However, we _should_ also put the files up on
transifex.net so it has less of a Fedora-specific connection.
Should we start the instance now? I hope so.
> 4. Job allocation is on-going. Giving the current completeness
of
> TOSW, it might be more efficient to focus on the first six chapters.
> Each prospected translator was asked about his/her preference of
> chapters. This work should be done by tomorrow morning GMT+8 time.
>
> But before all, the XML really needs updating and POT/PO file needs
> generating. Sincerely hope someone could give us the translators a
> hand.
Do you want to translate the content as it is right now? And do a new
translation when we move content around?
This is the thread where we discussed the new structure:
https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/tosw/2010-August/000011.html
Let's decide on this part before we go further.
Then we need to see how long it will be until we can make the changes
in the upstream wiki.
Ah, that's something I haven't thought about. If this restructuring
work had a tight working schedule, I think it would be fine for
translators to wait for another week or two. If not, maybe we had
better to start on current structure before the interests faded out.
Tommy