[kde-community] Translating the KDE manifesto

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dijous, 19 de desembre de 2013, a les 09:52:20, Ivan Čukić va escriure:
> > I'm very unsure whether translation is a good idea at all. It's too easy
> > to
> > change the meaning and just think about how carefully we worded everything
> > to make the meaning quite clear. It's possible that a certain wording will
> > get a different meaning in another language just because it's not possible
> > to translate correctly.
> 
> Its not that the manifesto is a legal binding document for it to need
> translations that have the super-careful wording.
> 
> One thing that we could do, is to follow the Creative Commons principle of
> having official (verified by local and CC lawyers) and unofficial
> translations (that desire to become official at some point).
> 
> For translations, we'll need manifesto versioning - as it is very likely
> that changing the manifesto will not trigger translations to be updated.

You need a system similar to the one used for translating kde.org in which a 
translation only is displayed if it totally translates 100% of the current 
english text.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers,
> Ivan