Unreadable Russian Desktop Guides

[Roustam Ghizdatov]

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 19:59 +0600, Roustam Ghizdatov wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> At https://help.ubuntu.com/ there are links to various guides. On
> Russian version of this page one, among other things, can choose to
> see pdf's of the Ubuntu and Kubuntu Desktop Guides in Russian. The
> idea is great, but these documents were and are not readable because
> of #'s instead of all cyrillic letters. Members of the Russian
> translation team applied to Matthew East a couple of months ago, but
> the issue has not been resolved as yet.
> 
> I would like to raise the question in this mailing list with a view to
> settle the issue after all. Importance of such documents cannot be
> exaggerated. They are the first source of information for beginners
> and those thinking about switching to Ubuntu. Deficit of information
> might discourage many talented people from joining the community,
> which is bad for all of us. Of course, there are several other ways to
> get help, but let's make this option available to people who prefer to
> learn things from books and documentation. Let's be human to others.
> 
> We are one step from official release of the Edgy Eft. We should make
> it better.
> 
> The bug has been recently reported:
> - https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/61445
> - https://launchpad.net/products/ubuntu-doc/+bug/61631
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Roustam Ghizdatov

Hi again,

It is very sad it takes so much time to fix simple problems. They
assigned "low" importance to the bug. Does that mean we have to wait
till doomsday? I hope not.

Matthew East sent email: "I am currently on holiday until 29 September
2006". Well, have a nice holiday, but what about the community? Is he
the only person who can do something about the problem? Please let me
know what is up to me to accelerate the process.

Broadly speaking, such precedents might kill translators' enthusiasm.
They spend their time and take pains to to be rewarded in certain ways.
What attitude should they take in cases like this?

And lastly, I would like to get any feedback from the mailing list
subscribers on the issue. Do you think I am making a small problem
bigger?

Best regards,

Roustam Ghizdatov
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