From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 17:02:08 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] WIP: begin to translate git with gettext Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100518164002.GC20842@unpythonic.net> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 16:40, Jeff Epler wrote: > The amount of work to mark all the source files and then to keep the > marks up to date should not be underestimated--and that's just the work > to enable translators to localize the software.  It is important to > gauge the interest in the git community in actually doing this work. It's also something you shouldn't overestimate. I've been involved in internationalizing several projects that were previously English-only. The work of making things translatable can be done incrementally. You also don't have to get everything right the first time, the current proof of concept translation of `git status` for instance suffers from numerous problems, but it's still better than nothing. It can be used as-is and then incrementally improved by arranging the strings more intelligently in the future.