Hi Yuri,

Thanks for taking time to go through the FUEL Project!

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor@ukr.net> wrote:
Hi,

Just a few notes about FUEL project in the Fedora and Ukrainian language context.

1. The project aimed to avoid fragmentation introduces fragmentation itself. At least for Ukrainian, TWN translator seems have not even see the Ukrainian translation in the applications mentioned in the contexts ever.

TWN translator is one of the contributor community. We are accepting contribution from Zanata as well now. So Ukrainian community can send the translation via zanata or even any individual as well can send the translation to FUEL project directly.
 

2. The project highly interferes with other works [1-5].

Five names you taken, FUEL just tries to come to consistency. As per FUEL Project, we think that an entry like "Save As" should be translated in similar fashion if the context is same across the application and across the platform.
 

3. The project uses dictionary from the limited set FOSS applications (GNOME, Firefox, OO.o) at least some of which are not even most usable throughout FOSS applications.

This makes it important, as FUEL emphasizes on that the entry coming repeatedly (base register) is more important to be standardized. FUEL is an acronym for "Frequently Used Entries for Localization". So the limited set. And we will also increase its entry base.
 

4. The project seems aimed just into collecting data without using them for any purpose.

No, its is not true. There are many use cases of FUEL Project. Just an example:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gedit/log/?qt=grep&q=fuel
 

So I propose to make it clear that

1. The project is for Indic languages only (?).

Not at all
 

2. The translation for other languages were not approved by any FOSS translation teams and express their authors opinion only.
Correct. But,

We didn't organized any meet-up of community evaluation till now for several languages, so till that time we can say that the  is author's/communities' (eg zanata/twn) opinion only.
 

3. Merge the existing translations with Zanata templates to avoid unnecessary waste of the Fedora translation team efforts.

please clarify!
 

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Regards,
Rajesh Ranjan

FUEL GILT Conference 2013
http://fuelproject.org/gilt2013/index