RFC: How to translate help topics.

[Alexander Belchenko]

John Arbash Meinel пишет:
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>> Advantage of text file over gettext is translaters can focus
>> translating one topic. And we can history with bzr.
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>> Advantage of gettext is traceablity on changes in English document.
>> Splitting help topic per paragraph helps translaters to follow
>> changes in English.
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>> Any thoughts?
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> I like the idea of having a full text file, but the most important thing
> is how do translators *want* to do the translations. Many people seem to
> like Rosetta (Launchpad's interface), but that seems mostly tuned for
> translating a UI (small clumps of text, 1-sentence, maybe 1-paragraph,
> not a document).

Yes, and Rosetta does not guarantee the same order of translatable 
chunks as they exists in the original PO file. I think this is BAD BAD 
BAD thing for single text splitted into chunks. And I'm -1 on this.

> help-topics are meant to be a discussion about something. As such, I
> think breaking them into single sentences would lead to a disjointed
> view. (Sort of like using translate.google.com gives something readable,
> barely understandable, but certainly not how a native speaker would say it.)

Exactly +1e6

> So for big groups of text, I would think you'd want to keep it together.
> But maybe I'm wrong. I know we're still not completely sure how the "bzr
> help command" text is going to get translated. Though it seems that
> we'll use something like gettext() to actually do the lookup and get the
> translated content to the user.

No, in my opinion: it should be kept together.

Also, please note that if you want to have good-quality translations 
then using Rosetta is not the good deal anyway: you have to restrict 
translate to the special trusted team otherwise you'll have so bad 
translations, so believe me -- english will be the better choice then.

Therefore if you will restrict translations to dedicated team then it 
does not matter if that team should use only LP or has to get txt files 
from branch -- that's not really a question. It's a matter of required 
process, isn't it?



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