[Kde-l10n-kn] A review of our recent efforts....

Fri Jan 11 15:04:48 CET 2008

Umesh,
Thanks for the enthu in resuming the KDE translations! I am quite keen to
indulge in the translations but I fear about the translation task to which
currently I am bound to! Right now I am doing gnome and fedora
simultaniously. Also I will be taking off from the work for more than 2
weeks in the month march (reason!!?? I ask me off you off the list! ;)) So
assign me minimal work and then if time permits I will join hands with
others task.

Also I have got a suggestion regarding bringing all the translators and
their efforts(viz gnome, KDE, fedora, mozilla, openoffice, etc) onto a
single platform. As for now there are many translators doing the translation
tasks sepertely and uniquely. There are some inconsistance in the
words/phrases used across the various applications, for example "password"
has been translated as ಪ್ರವೇಶಪದ(praveshapada) in some cases and ಗುಪ್ತಪದ
(gupthapada) in some cases. So to avoid these type of issues we can think
of  bringing all the interactions regadring translations in a single portal
like sampada.net and making dev.sampada.net as central source for all the
kannada translation efforts and discuss. Infact I am not perticular about
sampada, but since I think, it is a quite popular and active discussion
board for all kannada related things. Please drop your comments.

ಏನಂತೀರ!?

Thanks for understanding

Shankar Prasad

On Jan 11, 2008 5:41 PM, Umesh Rudrapatna <umeshrs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Snehitare,
> I have updated all the files we have translated (except one or two,
> which I am yet to get). I guess it is time to take a look at what we
> did till last October and then move ahead. Here is a gist of it-
> It is now history that we did not make it to kde 4.0 also. It would do
> good to look at how short we fell and how much more we need to work to
> barely enter the league of languages which come with kde by default.
> Here is the list of teams with what they have achieved on the essential
> list-
> http://www.l10n.kde.org/stats/gui/trunk-kde4/essential.php
> Clearly, we were 75% done on the list. The rest 25% was kdebase (the
> main stuff), in which we fell short by a good margin. However, the
> status on page
> http://www.l10n.kde.org/stats/gui/trunk-kde4/
> will take some time to reflect the latest commits. But here is the
> actual statistics of kdebase-
>
> Total strings-9305
> Translated-2663
> Untranslated-6210
> Fuzzy-432
> % Translated=28.6%
>
> So we fell short by a good 45% (for kdebase, the minimum to be
> translated is 75%).
> So, essentially, we are short by about 4000 strings. So there was no
> way we could have done it. Still we need to put in a good effort to
> make it. Also, some of the files we had translated are already
> obsolete (but they have appeared in different names. so, the effort
> wont go waste).
>
> I would like to thank all these people for their support during this
> period. Here is the list of translators who participated in the latest
> efforts and their contributions-
>
> Translator ---- Agreed to translate (no of strings) ----- Actually
> Translated (no of strings)---- %
> Manu                ----- 1081 ---- 928 ---- 81.0%
> Shankar Prasad  ----  914  ---- 75  ----  08.2%
> Girish Mirji         -----  1880 --- 48 ----   02.55%
> Umesh              -----  4810 --- 3309 --- 68.7%
> Mahesha           -----  766   -- 108   --- 14.0%
> Ramaprakasha   -----  1516 --- 1146  -- 75.5%
> Paresh               ----   911  ---  349  --- 38.3%
> Shambu Lingiah  ----  2873 ---  1251 -- 43.5%
> Adarsha              ----  59    ---  58   ---- 98.0%
>
> I do not know the status of translations with Sudarshan and Prasad Onkar.
> As we can see, the failure was mainly becuase, most of us promised a
> lot and delivered very little (including myself). I hope to learn from
> Adarsha/Manu and Rampa next time.
>
> From now on, I plan to restart the work on translations. I once again
> invite interested members to be a part of the efforts. We have another
> 4000 strings to make. There is no deadline for 4.1 yet. But we will
> take up something and fix a date for its submission. If somebody is
> interested, please send a mail to the list.
>
> The details of the various files translated and the source for the
> above statics can be seen at-
> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pHX8Yd32HCKieByT_5_J8bQ&hl=en
> (sorry, only for translators). Please feel free to send in your
> suggestions and comments.
>
> vandanegaLu,
> umesh
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