Re: [Indlinux-hindi] Pushing up X'lation stats...

[Ravikant <rav...@sa...>]

Dear Karunakar and Ravi,

I am happy with both the time(mid-august) and the review plan for the 
workshop. And we must document it for posterity. If you have anyone in mind 
who should be here for the workshop, please let us know. 

cheers
ravikant
www.sarai.net


 


On Thursday 17 Jun 2004 4:58 pm, Guntupalli Karunakar wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:25:08 +0530
>
> Ravikant <rav...@sa...> wrote:
> > Dear Karunakar and Ravi,
> >
> > And hope we are meeting for a review session at Sarai. if yes,
> > suggest convenient dates, etc.
>
>  I will be out of India, whole of July (going to bhutan to train a
> team there on l10n).
> You'll could still go ahead to doing a workshop or smaller review
> sprints (1day / half day). Else we have have whole of August as review
> month, doing small workshops with different set of reviewers.
>
> Jotting down some points for how a review work shop could be at
> http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/ReviewWorkshop
> ---
> This time we would like to do it differently. Instead of working on
> printed PO files, it will be done live. The available volunteers for
> review workshop can be divided into small groups of 2-4 people.
>
>     * They will have access to two machines, one with english
> interface , other with hindi interface.
>     * Each group assigned a set of applications (or submenu/groups to
> work with).
>     * The group will run through the app in english, and then in Hindi
> and do following tests
>           o consistency checking within the app, for same word
>           o context checks, if the translation is unsuitable for the
> current context (eg. menu, button, dialog)
>           o UI checks, if the translated stuff is going out of bounds
> or giving odd shape to its container (eg a dialog box).
>     * To be figured out, how to collate back this review feedback as
> changes in PO files.
>
> The above is not just aimed for a workshop , but more to evolve a set
> of review guidelines, which can be followed by anyone interested in
> reviewing or having some time to spend on it.
> ---
>
> Regards,
> Karunakar