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

Hi Jesper,
Le 04/12/2014 00:58, Jesper Hertel a écrit :
> Bonsoir Sophie,
>
> 2014-12-01 14:57 GMT+01:00 Sophie <gautier.sophie@gmail.com>:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Opening a new thread on the changes on the en_US version, I propose to
> > follow-up on the project@ list so we could associate the developers and
> > design teams and discuss together how to handle that in our workflow.
> > 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.
>
> For some reason I don't completely catch what you are saying, but I guess
> it is something along the lines that we should have a specific discussion
> forum for the en_US (American English, the "original" text) version? Or
> maybe a discussion about whether we should have a separate discussion forum?
>
> 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.

English strings come from different teams in the community, mostly from
developers and UX/Design teams, sometimes QA when they see small things
to fix quickly. The l10n team is the one who review the English strings
and who is the most impacted by their quality (before the user) and the
workload when they are changed.

When we want to discuss something that has an interest for several
teams, we have a cross team list, the projects@ list. I believe that the
developer should be aware, as well as the UX team that if they want to
make large changes to the English string, that will have a huge impact
on the l10n team and they have to take care of how those changes are
applied (spread over the branches, create scripts, etc.)

> > I'm not sure it's the good moment to open the discussion now because we
> > are all catching dead lines,
>
>
> Yeah, and maybe what I wrote above is in some way also part of that
> discussion that we probably should not take now? If so, you don't have to
> respond to my comment now.
>
>
> > but I propose to do it
>
>
> Does "do it" mean start the discussion, or are you referring to something
> else?

yes, that mean starting the discussion on the projects@list
> > on week 2 next year,
> > after the hard code freeze for 4.4.0.
>
> Is it ok for you all?
>
>
> Fine with me. :-)
>
>
> > if yes, I'll open a ticket on Redmine.
> Très bien, Sophie!

merci :)

Cheers
Sophie

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Co-founder - Release coordinator
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