Re: [Gaim-i18n] Re: Gaim 2.0.0, string and feature freeze!

[Javier <jf...@co...>]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:34:11AM +0100, Bjoern Voigt wrote:
> Hello Mark!
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> Mark Doliner <ma...@ki...> wrote:
> >Hello Gaim developers, translators and users!  As of nowish, the Gaim
> >codebase is in a string-freeze pending the final release of Gaim
> >2.0.0.

Strange, I didn't receive Mark's original mail.

> Are there any ideas, how we should deal with languages with very
> incomplete and outdated translations? Ideally we find new translators
> for this languages. May be we should ask for help on a translators site
> (GNOME translation teams etc.).

I wouldd say drop them (i.e. leave the pos but do not compile them in) and
ask for new translators either in the GNU Translation project or GNOME team=
s.

> Should we include translation files with a very low rate of translated
> strings? For instance Amharic (am) has currently a translation rate of
> 4.95%, Slovak (sk) 5.39% etc. (from http://gaim.sourceforge.net/i18n/)

Depends if they are stalled (nobody is working on them) or if they are
active. If they are active I'd say keep them (it's frustating to do a
translation and not see it included).

> I personally prefer English over a very incomplete translation.

Me too. But there's people that don't parse English well and maybe seeing a
(partial) translation might prompt them to start working if the previous
translator is no longer active.

Regards

Javier