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From: Peter Volkov <pva@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] wiki: bad top-down localization approach
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:20:17 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1320067217.18660.20.camel@tablet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EA7B69B.70904@gentoo.org>

В Срд, 26/10/2011 в 09:28 +0200, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." пишет:
> > Last week my co-worker installed Gentoo based on "misleading and
> > partially wrong" but still Russian only documents. He is practically
> > unable to read English well but uses Ubuntu for many years and now I've
> > forced him to use Gentoo (Yay! :) ) Also he programs php and yet there
> > are lots of technical books in Russian.
> 
> Why don't we have an official Russian translation of the Handbook then?
> IMHO it's even more important than having Russian-only articles on
> not-yet-existing official wiki.

Oh, I think because writing in Russian from scratch is easier then
translating handbook :) Another problem is that guidexml/CVS are not
convenient to support translations. Probably  Azamat's efforts with
transifex.gentoo.ru will help us but ... we'll see.

> >>> Another *bad* example are translated error messages.
> >>> Do you like to get bug reports with German error logs?
> >>
> >> +1
> > 
> > np here. If error message is unreadable I just request additional
> > information.
> 
> That introduces some delays, and sometimes reporters fail to post the
> requested info. It's generally much easier if you get the right thing
> from the start.

Well, I think once we switch into English we'll get bug reports with
users who were unable to translate and understand "disk is full" or
similar messages in the log )

--
Peter.





  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-31 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-19 12:37 [gentoo-project] wiki: bad top-down localization approach Peter Volkov
2011-10-19 13:31 ` Christian Ruppert
2011-10-19 13:43   ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2011-10-19 19:34     ` Peter Volkov
2011-10-26  7:28       ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2011-10-31 13:20         ` Peter Volkov [this message]
2011-10-31 13:30         ` Matt Turner
2011-10-19 19:52 ` Maciej Mrozowski
2011-10-19 20:24   ` David Valentim Dias
2011-10-20  4:56     ` Christian Ruppert
2011-10-19 20:38   ` Rich Freeman
2011-10-19 20:59     ` David Valentim Dias

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