[Localization] Etoys (was: Commit link activated for Terminal Activity and Log Viewer Activity)

[Carlo Falciola]

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 01:50:33 +0900
From: Korakurider <korakurider at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Localization] Etoys (was: Commit link activated for
    Terminal    Activity and Log Viewer Activity)
To: "Bert Freudenberg" <bert at freudenbergs.de>
Cc: Localization mailing list <localization at lists.laptop.org>
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On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>
> Am 08.07.2008 um 17:52 schrieb Sayamindu Dasgupta:
>>
>>> Does the Etoys and Terminology problems still persist ?
>>
>> What Etoys problems?
>   People have experienced bizarre problem (timeout, and then sticky
>"bad-gateway") when they tried to upload/merge etoys.po to Pootle
>because of its huge size.  Though that is NOT Etoys problem.>
>
>> I wonder why German and Japanese are the only
>> translations that have seen pootle commits since March:
>   I think as we were told to commit translations when it is finished,
>they hesitate to commit because they think it incomplete.
>   But I found it is safe to commit even if some phrases haven't been
>translations, and more frequent commit would make translators's life
>easier.
>
>  No commit, no progress in released product.
>  So, come on folks !
>
>/Korakurider

One of my thoughts is that the EToys file is way too large and a huge number of strings goes in indistinctly, related to very different and sometimes unusual topics (as far as I got in I've found UML, graphics, sound, smalltalk related strings).
So it's very difficult & time consuming to understand what a particular string belong (semantically) to...
 also checking  (found) it in a real image is not trivial...

having more smaller files gave much better focus on the strings to be translated increasing performances and accurateness.... 

my two cents 
ciao 
carlo 




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