[WG: I18N & L10N] My plan for smoothly including Pearsons' translations

[Jean-Francois Leveque]

Hi Shoji,

I've been told the French translation was incomplete and this was 
annoying users who rely on it outside of France.

I'm trying to lower the barrier for those who would like to benefit from 
Pearson's translation. It seem to me that putting it into contrib or 
msub won't lower the barrier.

Gao Jun asked me not to do this for the zh_CN translation because he 
will provide a better one soon. Because I haven't heard about requests 
for using Pearson's zh_CN translation, I think I can wait for his update.

I haven't heard heard about requests for using Pearson's ja_JP 
translation, I can also not create a ja_JP_Pearson locale variant and 
wait for an update if the Japanese community asks.

To manage the variants that do not increase the translation coverage, I 
would ask the institutions that need those to do the updates in 
subversion themselves. Training and help could be provided by volunteers 
who already know how to do this. Do you have another idea in mind?

J-F

On 11/07/2013 16:34, Shoji Kajita wrote:
> Hi Jean-Francois,
>
> I think Pearsons' translations should be in contrib or msub at first,
> as in the case of 'code'.
>
> In Japan, ja_JP (or ja) is now under the control of Ja Sakai
> Community. But we, Kyoto University, need to revise several words and
> phrases due to Kyoto University's local culture. I think the best way
> to manage such localized bundles is using a variant of locale like
> ja_JP_Kyoto as you suggested
>
> In this sense, I think there will be a lot of variants of locale in
> the future something like:
>
>    en_US_umich, en_GB_hull, ja_JP_K12, ...
>
> I think we need to find a way to manage these locale with variant.
>
> Shoji
>
> At Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:21:21 +0200,
> Jean-Francois Leveque wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As written under 'Managing translation updates' two months ago, I was
>> wondering how to benefit from Pearsons' translations without disturbing
>> the maintained translations.
>>
>> For the languages that are maintained and whose maintainers want to
>> review the contributed translations, I plan to add the translations to a
>> variant of the locale<language>_<country>_Pearson.
>>
>> For the languages that are not maintained or whose maintainers do not
>> mind getting the contributed translations as is, I plan to replace the
>> current translations with the contributed ones.
>>
>> Here is a list of the new variant locales with Pearson's translations:
>> es_ES_Pearson
>> fr_CA_Pearson
>> fr_FR_Pearson
>> ja_JP_Pearson
>> nl_NL_Pearson
>> zh_CN_Pearson
>>
>> Here is a list of the locales that will have their translations, when
>> available, replaced by Pearson's:
>> de
>> en_GB
>> it
>> ko
>> pt_BR
>> pt_PT
>> zh_TW
>>
>> Please correct me if I misunderstood the information I got about the
>> locale you're maintaining.
>>
>> Please feel free to ask questions too.
>>
>> If all is fine, I plan to revert the translation inclusions that were
>> done before and add them again as planned above unless I see approval
>> comments by locale maintainer in the corresponding JIRA issue.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Jean-François