From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:43:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Using Transifex in git.git
Message-ID: <BANLkTik7Kb6ae0aRNjL3RcMouhw2gkOwPA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin9bhtB_OPMWCVsbtKBpRXp2o=uLA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 15:21, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
> <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think it's a good idea to use a system like Transifex to manage
>> translations for git.git, so that we can attract a large number of
>> non-technical translators.
>
> Are we sure we want non-technical translators to translate Git, a
> highly technical program with many technical terms?

Well, usually even bad translations (although not horribly bad) are
better than nothing.

Most translated strings will have little or nothing git-specific about
them, but will be something like "We couldn't open file %s due to
XYZ".

And even if someone translates e.g. "branch" incorrectly they usually
do so consistently, so it's easy to search & replace those sort of
issues out of existence.