On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 06:26:15AM +0200, Youcef Rabah Rahal wrote:
In one concrete example, Mandrake, there's a l10n coordinator,
who seems to be
aware of _all_ teams and their coordinators. When I post to their mailing
Thats impressive.
> - Language teams have a habit of appearing *after* someone has
> done the first 99% of the translations
At least for Fedora it's not the case. I can again give the example of
not the case for Arabic...
However, we were very keen to give credit to the previous
translators:
http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Mandrake (see 'Notes').
And their names are in the PO headers too.
Thats really good and important.
About the credits: it's not only important to give people credit
for their
'donations' (the donations here are 'hours of participation and
dedication'),
but also you have a reference to point to in case of an issue. When and
end-user finds a 'bug' (vocabulary, grammar, or... worse !) in translation,
you can always refer them to the people who did it. When there's a (known)
team, it's even better. Rather than being obliged to say: 'Ooops, actually,
we have no idea who did what...'.
Agreed entirely