German code comments

[Papamatti]

Hi all,

we could use the list as signpost. It is very anoying to search for
german comments manually. But I disagree with editing of text on github.
What if the source changes? Without the sourcecode it is hard to
translate the text correctly sometimes.

Cheese/Käse

Matthias

Am 06.08.2015 um 18:34 schrieb Philipp Weissenbacher:
> Hi Johannes, all,
> 
> Sorry, but this is not going to work properly and will presumably burden
> the reviewers (mostly German-speaking core developers) a lot.
> See, even the example on the GitHub page is inaccurate, due to missing
> context:
> 
>     sw/source/filter/ww8/ww8struc.hxx:534: hiermit wird weitergearbeitet (entspricht weitestgehend dem Ver8-Format
>         -> with this we continue (largely matches the Ver8-format
> 
> That should be "With this we continue (largely corresponds to the
> version 8 format)".
> 
> My experience tells me, that the best translations get as much context
> from existing comments and surrounding code as possible.
> I just can't see that happening out of context in a large text file.
> 
> I really like your enthusiasm, so please read up on how to contribute
> comment translations like code via Gerrit
> (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/gerrit).
> 
> Cheers/Grüße,
> Philipp
> 
> On 6 August 2015 at 14:41, Bjoern Michaelsen
> <bjoern.michaelsen at canonical.com
> <mailto:bjoern.michaelsen at canonical.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 07:36:16AM -0500, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
>     > As long as the result is re-injected back in core.git via proper
>     > gerrit patch, that can work...
> 
>     .... assuming the last 5.000 of 50.000 german comments are not
>     weird, strange
>     leftovers that require lots and lots of context from the surrounding
>     code to be
>     sensibly translated at all.
> 
>     Lets see, maybe this works, but I am somewhat sceptical.
> 
>     Best,
> 
>     Bjoern
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