organizing CVS for trans

[Noriko Mizumoto]

Hi docs team

I am coming from fedora-trans-list, Japanese translator, Noriko 
Mizumoto. I am so excited hearing the news that docs team is preparing 
to host translation. I would like to say thank you, and am looking for 
something that I can help. Please let me know if it is recommended to 
make self introduction as translator, I am most happy to do so.

To me it would be nice if translators can work on po files similar to 
fedora software modules we are currently working, since this must be one 
of safe way to minimize translator from messing up tags. However this 
might be required more time of your side, I guess.

When the format will go with inline, the file can only be translated by 
one translator at the time and other translators have to wait for 
her/his turn, if my understanding is correct.
Then it seems that this is not practical for release notes which has 
strictly limited time-frame for both docs and trans.

Addition to this, CJK (aka chinese, japanese and korean) may have more 
convertion problem sometime apart from their translation. If we can have 
separate files for each lang, it will be easier to fix this kind of problem.

<para lang="en">
I am an idiot.
</para>
<para lang="de">
Ich bin ein dumbkoff
</para>
<para lang="fr">
le nulles, moi
</para>
<para lang="ja">
私はばかです。
</para>

Thanks for listening

Noriko


Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 13:58 -0500, Tommy Reynolds wrote:
> 
>>Uttered "Paul W. Frields" <stickster at gmail.com>, spake thus:
>>
>>
>>>Just my $0.02 -- I think this is the best solution also technically, but
>>>the only thing I would be worried about is contributors who
>>>inadvertently screw up translated sections (errant keystrokes, etc.) and
>>>don't know that they've done so since they can't read the text.  Does
>>>this approach gain us enough to balance out that risk?  Otherwise, I
>>>think it's a super idea.
>>
>>I think the "who touches last owns" rule applies.  You break the
>>build, you fix the build.  Anyway, we've got CVS backup for the
>>diffs.
> 
> 
> Yeah, I figured as much.  I can live with that if everyone else can. ;-)
> 
>