[haiku-doc] Re: Another try at user guide translations

  • From: Julián Montes <jmcvigo@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:22:56 +0200

2009/10/18 Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Hi Vincent!
>
> -- Vincent Duvert, on Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:46:02 +0200:
> > - I tried to add an Haiku-ish look to the document list page and the
> > forms items. It is far from perfect, but is a bit less ugly than the
> > previous (lack of) style :-p
> > Here is a screenshot:
> http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/8647/capturedcran20091018121.png
> >
> Very nice!
>
> > - When exporting, only the documents that changed will be
> > regenerated.
>
> OK!
> One question: Did you also implement generating a contributer list for
> the header of each assembled HTML? I.e. something like "Original
> authors: %names-of-english-version%" and "Translation by: %names-all-
> block-translators%".
> Or do you track contributions in some table, as we discussed a while
> back?
>
> Correct attribution is the least we have to offer the volunteer
> translators/authors.
> OTOH, I dunno if this should delay us any further. Maybe this could be
> added later?
>
> > So now let's try to get this into production :)
>
> Exactly!
>
> We still need a style guide for every language, like I posted for
> German a while back. It doesn't have to be long and complete, as it
> will be extended over time, I bet.
>
> For now, I'd like to have a link to it from the translation panel.
> Later it will probably be put into a wiki.
>
> We also need a "language manager" for every language. Just someone, who
> reads what his collegues have written and welcomes new translators and
> shows them the ropes. If you're the sole translator for your language,
> congrats, you're it! You can try to shift the responsibility to a
> newcomer later. :)
>
> At the moment we have:
>
> French:
> Remi Grumeau
>
> German:
> Humdinger
>
> Indonesian:
> Dityo Nurasto
>
> Italian:
> Miguel Zuniga
> Andrea Bernardi
>
> Russian:
> HaikuBot
> Dmitry Belyaev
>
> Spanish:
> Oscar Carballal Prego
> Miguel Zuniga
>
> Swedish:
> Jimmy Olsson
>
> We still don't have admin-created mailing lists for you to discuss
> style things, so I suggest you work among yourselves (there aren't that
> many teams yet) and post your results here. As soon as the lists exist,
> you can take the discussion there.
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> Regards,
> Humdinger
>
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> Hi, I want to translate into Spanish in my free time, I thought I already
was in that list :S but anyway I still want to contribute. By the way, you
should know that I´m a student, and I could only help in my free time,
during my holidays, maybe in weekends... Thank you for your attention.
Regards, Julián

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