On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 04:57:44PM +0100, Robert Scheck wrote:
But for translators it would get more easy to translate things, which
also
lowers the barrier of getting new translators. Currently, a translator IMHO
needs also much technical knowledge, not just knowing 2+ languages.
Yes, it certainly can be easier than the current processes.
However, it is only a small amount of technical skills that a
translator needs. The skills generally apply to most other open
source projects that people translate for.
As a general guide, we have had technical skill level as a barrier in
Fedora, depending on where one is contributing.
For example, changing content on the wiki is very easy, while changing
content in the fedora-release-notes package is much harder.
This is probably a good idea -- you do not want to give everyone the
ability to translate *and* commit changes to essential software
packages without some layers of review.
I'm writing this so we are clear that there is not a huge and
difficult technical barrier to translators in Fedora. We don't want
to be scaring people away! ;-)
- Karsten
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