i18n issues, was: FC2 release

[Pedro Morais]

Em Sexta 07 Novembro 2003 00:41, Paul Gampe escreveu:
> Red Hat's internal localization team still has a considerable backlog of
> work related to the Enterprise Linux 3 launch.  We are hoping by
> mid-December to be able to get back on track with the Fedora releases.
>
> We are very excited by the strong support of community translators though,
> and hope to have the time soon to be able to better coordinate these
> efforts.

One first small step would be to somewhat generate a list of i18n update dates 
for each of the packages on a release. 

I understand that a package won't be regenerated just because I commited an 
update to a translation (in the betas, for the final release there should be 
a "Ok, day x all packages will be regenerated even if otherwise necessary 
just to include translation").

But at least I could when testing a beta look at CVS history and notice that 
at the day/hour of that last i18n fetch the package was 100% translated and 
any problem must be in the package. And I think this process is not as simple 
as "look at the build date of the RPM".

Anyway Paul, I do think you are doing a good job overall.

>
> Paul
>
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:34 am, Pedro Morais wrote:
> > Another "acessibility" issue is internationalization; the current process
> > isn't bad at all, but could be improved.
> > I was unfortunately very busy during this beta period (only managed to
> > follow the mailling lists and update portuguese translations), so I can't
> > really complain, but I kept i18n stats at 100% at almost all tims, and
> > certainly at the freeze point I'm sure that only the anaconda docs has a
> > couple of untranlated, and still there are powerdown messages in english
> > (in the middle of portuguese messages, so it's not a "too late for i18n
> > issue") and, even worse, up2date/rhn_register is half translated/half in
> > english.
> >
> > Clearly there's room for improvement.

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Pedro Morais - morais at kde.org - http://www.rnl.ist.utl.pt/~pmmm/