Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Follow-up on en_US changes

IMO bad quality of English strings can be improved by having some l10m teams work on Master (and 
spotting these bad strings early enough), and that is being discussed in parallel.

Also, perhaps requiring string reviews on patches with new or changed strings could be an option. 
I'm pretty sure we could find someone to gladly do these reviews within the community. :-)

Rimas

On 2014 m. gruodis 4 d. 08:06:12 EET, Yury Tarasievich <yury.tarasievich@gmail.com> wrote:
> I may be completely misunderstanding this, but 
> it seems to me the point is the en_US strings 
> should be translations as well. That would put 
> much needed damper on the changes introduced 
> "just because they can be introduced". As a 
> secondary gain, translations are (hopefully) 
> created by folks with at least some native 
> language preparation; right now "master" strings 
> "which anybody can write" -- as I know from my 
> own practice and from this list -- may be 
> awkward in expression and/or convoluted in 
> meaning (fixing which creates more work for 
> everybody).
>
> Yury
>
> On 12/04/2014 02:58 AM, Jesper Hertel wrote:
> > 2014-12-01 14:57 GMT+01:00 Sophie <gautier.sophie@gmail.com>:
> ...
> > > Some changes are necessary and the en_US version has to be
> maintained
> > > too but that shouldn't have an impact or at least, as limited as
> > > possible on the l10n work.
> > I do believe discussing the English strings are somewhat related to
> the
> > translation of them, so maybe because of that I fail to see a very
> sharp
> > division between them and the localization. The English strings are,
> in
> > principle, also a type of localization, I would say. They just have a
> much
> > higher authority, as they become the authoritative source for the
> rest of
> > the localizations.
> ...
>
> Yury
>
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