On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 11:39:10AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Some random questions...
1) Would you, as a translator, be OK with having to use git, mercurial,
subversion, or cvs, depending on which app you're translating?
Speaking for the Welsh translation group CVS is ok because it is available
on Windows and some translators prefer to use windows based po tools on
their desktop. Git/Mercurial and friends might be problematic, especially as
git requires some skill to use and easily breaks.
2) Would you, as a translator, be OK with doing all translating
through
a web-based application?
Much of the translation is already done this way
http://www.kyfieithu.co.uk/index.php?lg=en&
and I'm sure Kevin would be delighted to see us use the GPL code if it
was useful to Red Hat. Unlike Ubuntu launchpad it is open source and it
supports translation of the web environment itself into multiple languages.
Alan
[the bit left in Welsh is a poem, not anything you need to follow to use it
(something like
Magical is the wizards fire of ideas
that is used to pick old bytes/chunks
from the mine of language to be revitalized
into the gold of new words
)
]