[packagekit] using launchpad for gnome-packagekit translation?

[Mark Krapivner]

>On the other hand by using Damned Lies you restrict translators to the
>competent ones ;)

i absolutely disagree with this sentence. yea there's a small and
insignificant group of people who doesn't know what there doing, but they
don't do much damage at all... most translations are very good, and of very
high quality.

>IMHO getting THE (both correct and coherent) translation is more
>important than just getting A translation.

agreed, every translation's on launchpad can be edited and improved many
times by many people.

2008/9/18 Patryk Zawadzki <patrys at pld-linux.org>

> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Mark Krapivner <mark125 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://l10n.gnome.org/module/gnome-packagekit
> > it says gnome-packagekit is translated into 27 languages, only 11
> languages
> > more 50% and only 7 that are more then 80%.
> >
> > application on launchpad usually get more attention from translator (see
> > Deluge, transmission, emesene, gnome-do and many others) and it makes it
> > easier for people that don't know packagekit to contribute to the
> project.
> >
> > so is there chance that launchpad will be uses for translations?
>
> On the other hand by using Damned Lies you restrict translators to the
> competent ones ;)
>
> IMHO getting THE (both correct and coherent) translation is more
> important than just getting A translation.
>
> --
> Patryk Zawadzki
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