[Mageia-dev] Call for translators

[Oliver Burger]

Am Sonntag, 18. Dezember 2011, 01:25:58 schrieb andre999:
> Oliver Burger a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > these days Damien contacted me about the bootloader translation.
> > The problem is, we do have quite some languages, that don't have i18n
> > teams in Mageia.
> > So there are quite some languages where the bootloader still contains
> > strings about Mandriva.
> > 
> > Now there are two solutions.
> > Either we do find translators of those languages, who fix those
> > translations (and while they are on it, join i18n and fix/complete all
> > other translations as well :D)
> > or we just delete those translated strings. People in those languages
> > will then see English strings instead but at least no Mandriva strings
> > any more.
> A third option could be that some enthusiastic documenters/translators
> just change Mandriva to Mageia in all the places where the English has
> Mageia.  (Where translators for the language in question haven't responded.)

It's maybe doable for most languages but it can hardly be automated. And when 
coming down to non-latin alphabets it will become hell for those poor souls 
having to do it.

+the enthusiastic translators (doc team has nothing to do with it) have their 
own work to do...

Oliver