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To: Peter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
To: Guillaume Lelarge <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Is translating server messages really worth it?
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 16:28:42 +0100
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On 25.09.23 23:48, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> The 80% rule always struck me as odd. It might make sense if falling
> under the threshold meant that the translation was classified as a
> second tier translation, or whatever. But it's a binary pass/fail
> condition -- there are no reasonable gradations. A 79% complete
> translation that nobody really has access to is 100% useless.
At FOSDEM 2023 [0], I discussed the 80% rule with some other
translations projects (e.g., KDE), but no one else seems to have such a
system, so maybe it wasn't the right idea.
[0]: https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/track/translations/
One specific example of a thing I would like to avoid is that the --help
output has a wild mix of translated and untranslated lines.
Of course, this could be avoided by having the whole --help output as
one translation catalog entry, which is exactly what we have not been
doing, because that makes it harder to update between versions.
So I don't know ...
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