Translators breaking documentation

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Donnerstag, den 12.10.2006, 22:58 +0100 schrieb Matthew East:

> * Do not rearrange groups of tags - they will break!
> * Do not translate tags, or entities (such as &hello;)
> * To make sure you get the tags and code right - copy and paste it,
> don't copy it by eye, because you will make mistakes.
> 
> Team leaders - please ensure that when guidelines are posted to this
> list, they are actually conveyed to the translators, and that people are
> not translating documentation without having a good grasp of these basic
> guidelines.
> 

> Hoping for your collaboration,

I created a small site about translating docbooks in German:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGermanTranslators/Handbuecher

We just started the translation and review of the documentation.

It would be nice if the build system would allow to only create the
documentation of one language and from a local po file. Currently you
have to modify the translate.sh script.

I will care about the correct semantic of the German translation of
ubuntu-docs.

> The use of Rosetta for documentation was never a perfect solution, and
> if we can't improve this situation, we may have to think about another
> system - such as asking translators to build the xml and check for
> errors before submitting it to the documentation team.

Rosetta is quite handy for translating large po files, since you can
divide the work and people can work simultaneously on the same
translation: We divided the desktopguide in blocks of a size of 100 
strings each.

I think that it is more a docbook issue or a review issue.

Regards,

Sebastian
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