rosetta import bug or ...?

Jan Claeys lists at janc.be
Tue Sep 19 18:46:27 BST 2006


Is the following a bug in the way Launchpad imported (or didn't import?)
new translations from GNOME, or did "someone" edit this back to the
wrong spelling that was in an old GNOME version?

<https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/language-pack-gnome-nl/+bug/61158>

AFAIK there is still no way for us to check who did fuck up a
translation.  But it's *we* (responsible people for the Dutch
translation team) who have to apologise again and again and again to the
GNOME Dutch translation team (or equivalent for non-GNOME programs) for
everything that goes wrong.

Also, I don't even know how to fix this, as I can't easily find the
correct translation file, which is another long-time deficiency of
Rosetta.

I'm seriously thinking more and more that stepping away from Rosetta is
the only way we can get a properly translated Ubuntu (and inside the
Dutch translation team, we already did that as much as we could for
"dapper", which still seems to be "not enough" :-( ).


Folks, please, *PLEASE*, get your stuff together, because Rosetta
doesn't work properly in its current state, it never did (until now, its
major accomplishment is giving us bad translations), and its
deficiencies are giving Ubuntu a bad reputation over here (and, from
what I hear, also in other language communities).

Please, *please*, *PLEASE*.  Thank you.

</rant-of-last-hope>


-- 
Jan Claeys




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