Uttered "Paul W. Frields" <stickster(a)gmail.com>, spake thus:
> > I am just now learning how translation works, thanks to
Manuel Ospina's
> > Translation Quick Start Guide. Would it be easier for translators if we
> > moved to using "rpm-info-en.xml", "rpm-info-de.xml", etc.?
Comments
> > welcome.
> The actual non-English information in the current "rpm-info.xml"
> seems quite minimal in contrast with translating an entire document.
The translators' existing (and efficient, AFAICT) process doesn't jibe
well with what we require of them in rpm-info.xml.
Sorry, I hadn't made that connection. Good catch.
By all means, let's use a technique that works well all on its own.
Seamless, and all that.
Still, we need a way of thinking about the "rpm-info.xml" file that
matches the plethora of "rpm-info-${LANG}.xml" files. Workers,
titles and descriptions I can see being "translated" well enough.
Will there be an authoritative changelog? If so, where? Keeping it
in the English translation seems, well, chauvinistic. Per-language
changelogs? Hmm. Appealing.
Perhaps we haven't done a good job highlighting that the
"rpm-info.xml" file is really a multi-lingual document, instead of
being English-only. Name change in order?
I'm willing to bow to experience here; I'm limited to translating
between English and Good Ole' Boy English.
Cheers