Subject: apology (was Re: TODO icons and labels)
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 14:40:35 CST
Summary of the following:
1. Paul acts like a turkey, showing no understanding or appreciation for
the work it takes to update an existing translation. Patches to improve
that mechanism to make it easier for translators on all platforms would of
course be a very Good Idea.
2. Joaquin quite rightly gets offended, but generously refrains from
flaming Paul back.
I'm sorry.
Paul
At 07:38 PM 3/13/01 +0100, Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:
>On 12 Mar 2001 11:21:35 -0800, Paul Rohr wrote:
>> I still like the idea of a self-correcting process, where *one* fr-FR
>user
>> will be sufficiently annoyed to supply the missing translation, but we
>don't
>> piss off everyone else too much to achieve that result.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> PS: I'm ashamed to admit that I'm not terribly sympathetic when folks
>with
>> CVS access complain about gaps in the translations they use, instead
>of just
>> fixing them. That's totally en-US-centric of me, isn't it?
>
>I should say that this comment has upset me very much.
>
>I've spend many *MANY* days (and nights) translating english and french
>stuff to spanish. I've translated alone 2 books, quasi-alone the
>gtk-tutorial (170 pages, if I remember correctly), I collaborated in the
>translation of the redhat manuals (two times), 5 how-to guides, I've
>translated lots of apps and many docbook (and html) files with the help
>of apps. Almost always I've done it in my free time, without being
>paid.
>
>Now, I don't ALWAYS have the time to update all my translations just
>before a new release (and I think that ALL our translators are in the
>same position), so the net result, is that abiword usually looks *VERY*
>bad to foreign users. So with my 15 lines patch I just wanted to help a
>bit to ALL the foreign users of abiword. Of course, I could have spend
>my time finishing the spanish translation, but in 2 weeks we will have
>the same problem, and anyway we would still have the same problem with
>the others languages... anyway, I actually finished the spanish
>translation but I had some problems to made it work (if somebody knows
>why the cvs tree with LANG=es asserts at startup, please email me).
>
>Conclusion? I'm en-US-centric.
>
>Thank you very much.
>
>--
>Joaquín Cuenca Abela
>cuenca@celium.net
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