[kde-doc-english]KDE facts and figures page

Malcolm Hunter malcolm.hunter at gmx.co.uk
Mon Aug 19 18:47:58 CEST 2002


> Op maandag 19 augustus 2002 08:01, schreef Éric Bischoff:
> > On Tuesday 20 August 2002 02:13, Rinse de Vries wrote:
> > > I miss the i18n-packages, don't they count as well?
> >
> > They don't, because :
> > - translations cannot be expressed in "lines of code"
> > - the number of commits are artificially increased by automated scripts
> 
> OK...
> >
> > But in the same page
> > 	http://www.kde.org/whatiskde/proj.html#factsandfigures
> > it is stated that :
> > 	The translation team alone consists of 110 individuals.
> >
> > This figure has been determined a year ago IIRC but I think it's still
> more
> > or less correct.
> 
> Hmm, is it?
> KDE ships with 40-50 languages.
> if we have 110 translators in total, every team should have 2-3 members.
> But our team (Dutch) has about 8-10 active translators, and i guess we are
> not 
> the only team that have more then 3 members.. :)

I'm guessing this number is based on the commit logs - en_GB has about 5
people who have worked on the translation, but only a couple of us have been
committing to CVS.

Regards,
Malcolm

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