Hello,<br><br>my name is Robert and I attended the meeting the first time today. I followed the conversation with interested. I am dual language (English/German), with German as my native language. A few years back my English was not as good as today, and I found myself trying very had to explain something in English that would be so easy to do in my native language. I believe there are more people that have similar experience. I like the approach of Andrey and I willing to participate for the translation of German language.<br>
<br>Robert<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Andrey Dunin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrey@dunin.us">andrey@dunin.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>All,<br> <br>Mohammed brings up a very good point! Ubuntu has a user-base in almost every country around the world. Not everyone can explain their problem well in English thus it can cause many bugs not fixed. <br>Here is how I would handle this issue:<br>
<br>1. Conduct a survey to find out the ammount of users there are whose dominant language is other than English.<br> <br>2. Assign ACTIVE cordinators for each one of these languages, if a language does not have many users, assign 1. For more widespread languages like Spanish - Multiple will be needed.<br>
<br>3. Bugs are submitted through a general form, but the user is able to chose his native language which will then send the bug over to a translator. <br> <br>4. Translator translates the bug and it is released to the general public for viewing. <br>
<br> <br>An issue with the above can be that the translator can in one point decide that he doesnt feel like translating no more. If he is the only translator for the language -- we are stuck.<br> <br>I am willing to take on the translation for the Ukrainian and Russian languages since I speak them fluently.<br>
<br>This is not something that she be ignored since there are MANY non-english speaking users around the world and I know many of them which is funny since I live in the United States :)<br> <br> <br>Lets hear some more feedback!</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Mohammed Amine IL Idrissi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ilidrissiamine@gmail.com" target="_blank">ilidrissiamine@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Hi all,<br><br>Currently, we (bug triagers and users of Launchpad in general) only<br>accept bug reports and comments in English. This can cause a problem,<br>
since it's nearly impossible for speakers of a language other than<br>English to post a bug report ; in the end, we're losing an opportunity<br>to improve Ubuntu by fixing nasty bugs.<br><br>So how can we improve this situation? In our recent meeting, two<br>
possibilities (I think) were discussed:<br>- Include the option of translating the bug via Google Translate's API.<br> I don't think this is a good idea, since the translation isn't<br>guaranteed to be good, which can lead to confusion in technical talks<br>
IMO.<br>- Have a small group of bug triagers in each local community, who<br>would triage bugs from native/foreign speakers and then send them to<br>Launchpad with the appropriate translation.<br><br>So what's your point of view? Please share it :)<br>
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