[kde-community] Translating the KDE manifesto

[Martin Graesslin]

On Thursday 19 December 2013 20:05:38 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Dijous, 19 de desembre de 2013, a les 09:05:22, Martin Graesslin va
> 
> escriure:
> > On Wednesday 18 December 2013 23:50:03 Eike Hein wrote:
> > > Translations are always a bit 'risky' of course but I
> > > think in the spirit of inclusiveness and internationality
> > > they're a great idea.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > So overall from me a -1 for translations. If we want to do translations it
> > has to be clear, that:
> > * it's a translation which is not binding. The English version of the
> > manifesto matters
> > * we have very strong requirements on who is allowed to translate and a
> > very strict peer review process for the translated document.
> 
> Any reason why the manifesto translations should be more strict than say the
> 4.12 announcement?
I cannot judge the quality of the translations, given that the release 
announcements are not translated to any language I speak. But just a small 
point for the quality of translations: all German IT channels reported that 
4.11 is the "last" release, because we wrote "latest" which is very close to 
"letzte" (German for last).

Cheers
Martin
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/attachments/20131219/9e417a92/attachment.sig>