[ILUG] Debian, KDE and translations

[Niall Walsh]

Barry O'Donovan wrote:

>Hey,
>
>On Thursday 31 March 2005 18:03, Niall Walsh wrote:
>  
>
>>I've recently realised that Debian only packages languages for Kde
>>which have met the kde requirements to go into a release. 
>>thoughts are that this is not the right approach for Debian to take
>>as a partial translation is, imho, better then none and also helps to
>>encourage work on the translation.   Specifically, Kde's irish
>>translation is around 60% in the key areas, where it needs to be up
>>near 90% for Dde (and hence Debian's kde-i18n) to include it.
>>    
>>
>
>From what I can gather (I can get a definitive answer if anyone wants), 
>the requirements are something like a completely translated kdelibs.po, 
>a partly translated kio.po and at least 75% translation of the basic 
>desktop* files in the templates directory of kde-i18n. The ga 
>translation is currently:
>
>kdelibs.po - 90.75%
>kio.po     - 48.56% (probably a bit on the low side)
>
>And as for the desktop* files - it'll vary from package to package but 
>for the two most popular:
>kdelibs - 77.81
>kdebase - 75.48
>
>It falls off for other packages but in the main you're not talking about 
>_too many_ strings. All this info is available from:
>
>http://i18n.kde.org/stats/gui/HEAD/ga/
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>
From: http://i18n.kde.org/translation-howto/starting-translation.html

"The official rule for release versions says around 90% of kdelibs.pot, 
100% of desktop_kdelibs.pot and desktop_kde-i18n.pot and around 75% of 
kdebase should be translated in order to get into a release. But, 
usually, it is up to the team coordinators to decide when their language 
is "ready for release" and to report it as such to the people in charge 
of the release."

So
90% kdelibs CHECK 90.75
100% desktop_kdelibs NO 77.81% (156 more strings to go) 
http://webcvs.kde.org/~checkout~/kde-i18n/ga/messages/kdelibs/desktop_kdelibs.po
100% kde-i18n CHECK 100%
75% kdebase NO 63.12% (1254 more strings to make 75%, 3893 to choose from)

So it looks like we need 1410 strings translated to get to the official 
rule for release.

My Irish is also next to useless so I wouldn't dare translate anything!

Actually, having a look in desktop_kdebase.po which is part of kdebase 
and has 409 translated stings, I think I spot some things even I can 
translate!
http://webcvs.kde.org//~checkout~/kde-i18n/ga/messages/kdebase/desktop_kdebase.po
"KDE Box" => "Bosca KDE"
There seem to be some other "easy" targets in there?

Just for a fun aside, while a googling my way along the interweb I 
discovered an irish translation company who will do a 10000 word english 
to irish technical document for €1650 :-)

Niall