Comments on: Lost in translation ?

By: | frequents

| frequents — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:21:15 +0000

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By: Karsten Wade

Karsten Wade — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:36:50 +0000

Agreed with Sankarshan, as far as I know it has always been a hallmark of the l10n teams funded by Red Hat to work within upstream projects. L10n has always been considered like any other code or content. There is no advantage to carrying the burden of maintenance. An RPM is ideally upstream source and a .spec file, with minimal patches. This includes translations.

I also looked for any similar content by J5 (John Palmieri), with no luck. The situation Vincent clarifies on might have occurred in the distant past, but things shouldn’t have been that way since at least Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. All the l10n is done via the Fedora Project on the latest projects integrated in that distro, so the l10n is complete before Red Hat Engineering forks for RHEL.

By: sankarshan

sankarshan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:07:13 +0000

I read your response and, thank you for putting it out. However, Stormy’s note mentioned “an article by J5”, I am looking for either a link to the article or, some context to the quote from J5 himself.

To the best of my knowledge, not only does Red Hat invest in translations, improving translation quality; it also ensures that translations/localizations of upstream projects like GNOME are upstream. The need to re-do them all them time (with the implication of a non-standard process) does not really arise or, exist.