Re: [libreoffice-website] Forum

On 03/12/2011 15:34, Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote:
> 2011/12/3 Jonathan Aquilina<eagles051387@gmail.com>
>
> > On 03/12/2011 15:02, Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote:
> >
> > > Ok I am testing the new forum at forum-test.libreoffice.org and I have
> > > some
> > > questions:
> > >
> > > 1st) Who is responsible for the translations ? I am part/moderator of the
> > > documentation team for Pt-br and it seems something need to get a little
> > > more "user-friendly" for the Potuguese translations.
> > All translations have come from the phpbb site as packages. Could you
> > elaborate on what you mean by more user friendly.
> Well it seems the welcome messages (e-mail) and the messages we see when
> registering are made in European Portuguese (pt), but the majority of users
> of LibO are Brazilian (pt-br) so it seems we are seeing something written
> by some uptight grandfather ... no errors, just feels ugly. But that is
> biased, when a pt speaker reads a pt-br site he feels some uneasiness also.
> Just wondering IF it would be possible for a future fix on these
> interfaces.
This is a very interesting though. Are we going to open up the existing 
phpbb translations to be improved by the l10n team and translators that 
want to translate the already existing translations and improve on them?

> >   2nd) Can we have a auto-detect feature to set our localization to the
> > > right
> > > language (same as we got in the main libreoffice site) ?
> > I am not sure but its not a bad idea at all. it will keep the amount of
> > clutter on the main forum page and will allow users to see only the
> > language they want.
> >
> > Yep
>
> > > 3rd) Can we have instead of showing all the different forum languages in
> > > the main page this page localized and when I want to change this
> > > localization we whould have a dropdown menu on the page (similar to other
> > > projects)? This way it will become less cumbersome in the long run
> > > (imagine
> > > 100 languages listed in the main page)
> > See above
>
> Well, there is a difference in these features, but its theoretical, I can
> see that the best solution would be to change them both obviously :)
>
>
> >   4th) When the migration to production occurs will the messages be
> > > migrated?
> > > This will determine the level of acuracy / comitment people will be
> > > incentivated to achieve in this testing envirorment.
> > If I am not mistaken the forums will go live as is, but if we opt we can
> > remove the testing posts that are already there.
> >
> > Oh, I prefer it to go live with the posts that are there already, just
> asking so I can *SPREAD THE WORD* ... :)

It still to early we are still in testing phase. Do we have a time frame 
for the forums to go live?

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