Semi-mechanizing the DTTP translations
Hendrik Knackstedt
hendrik.knackstedt at t-online.de
Thu Dec 20 12:35:28 UTC 2012
Hey Pierre!
I'd like to test your approach for the German language also. How exactly
did you split the files? Did you use an existing program/script or can
you provide a script for doing this? Thanks!
Hendrik
Am 19.12.2012 15:58, schrieb Pierre Slamich:
> Yes, although we might be finished by then ;-)
> Thanks to the method we're reviewing and correcting around 1000
> strings per day at the moment.
>
> sincerely,
> Pierre
>
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Hannie Dumoleyn
> <lafeber-dumoleyn2 at zonnet.nl <mailto:lafeber-dumoleyn2 at zonnet.nl>> wrote:
>
> Hi Pierre, Redmar, and all who are interested,
> Would it be an idea to brainstorm on this in #ubuntu-translators?
> Perhaps in January 2013?
> I agree with Redmar that the msgmerge is a good method, especially
> for huge documents. The only snag is that you still have to
> approve the fuzzies offline before uploading the file back to
> Launchpad. We use this method for the Ubuntu Manual "Getting
> started with Ubuntu" (Lucid > Maverick > ....> Raring) and with
> success.
> Redmar, sorry for not yet having tested your popsort :(
> Regards,
> Hannie
>
> Op 18-12-12 00:51, Pierre Slamich schreef:
>> Hi Hannie, Hi Redmar,
>> Thanks a lot for the tips: we're interested in using your
>> approach, and more generally it might be interesting expending
>> the msmerge approach to all teams that are already underway for
>> the DDTP, and the Google one to the teams that need to get started.
>>
>> - For the Google Translator Kit approach, I guess we
>> could extend the mock project we did for fr_FR to other languages
>> (and streamlining our process by using Bazaar) by creating a
>> global team responsible for the DDTP Mock project and including
>> in this team one member from each language team responsible for
>> uploading the machine translated po for his or her language.
>>
>> - For the msmerge approach, do you already have a project to
>> handle this ? Is there any advantage in msmerging raring against
>> releases older than quantal to get more modified strings ? How
>> many strings have you been able to recover using that approach
>> ? It might be neat to generate the msmerged po for all languages
>> ? Importing them as actual translations (not fuzzy) into a mock
>> project like the Google Translate one would show them as
>> suggestions for the actual DDTP as well.
>> The translator would thus be able to pick the human translated
>> one when available or to build on the machine translated one
>> otherwise.
>>
>> Can we try to schedule some time to coordinate on this so that we
>> can use both approaches and try to onboard all the other
>> languages teams once we have a rock-solid process ?
>>
>> Pierre
>>
>> Pierre Slamich
>> pierre.slamich at gmail.com <mailto:pierre.slamich at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Redmar <redmar at ubuntu-nl.org
>> <mailto:redmar at ubuntu-nl.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Pierre,
>>
>> I've actually tried a similar approach for Dutch using
>> msgmerge, which
>> might also be worth checking out. When you merge the
>> translations of an
>> older version of ubuntu into the current version (msgmerge
>> quantal_ddtp.po raring_ddtp.po -o merged_ddtp.po, for
>> example), there
>> will be a lot of 'fuzzy' translations for strings that are
>> similar (for
>> example, meta packages for different programs, debugging
>> symbols etc).
>> These fuzzy often only need a few small changes (eg program
>> name) to be
>> accepted, which can really speed up translations. And you
>> don't have to
>> worry about google putting in a weird translation, since it
>> is all based
>> on earlier translations done by a human.
>>
>> On a related note, if any of you work on ddtp-translations
>> offline, I
>> have written a python program that can sort entries in ddtp
>> po-files
>> based on the popularity of the package. This way, the most
>> popular
>> packages will be at the top of the po file, and you are
>> always sure you
>> are working on the most important packages first.
>>
>> You can get the code here:
>> bzr branch lp:~redmar/+junk/ddtp_popsort
>>
>> It has a small readme file, please let me know if something
>> is unclear
>> or not working for you.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Redmar
>> --
>> Ubuntu Dutch Translators
>>
>>
>> Hannie Dumoleyn schreef op ma 17-12-2012 om 17:58 [+0100]:
>> > Hello Pierre,
>> > This is a very good idea! I have just uploaded the first
>> part of the
>> > incomplete Dutch translation (900kb) to GTT.
>> > Thanks,
>> > Hannie
>> >
>> > Op 17-12-12 12:55, Pierre Slamich schreef:
>> >
>> > > The DDTP represent around 50 000 strings to translate * 140
>> > > languages. On very good weeks, a typical translation team
>> translates
>> > > 500 strings (see UWN for examples weekly figures).
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Would take a lot of weeks (years?) with highly motivated
>> volunteers
>> > > of a large translation team, working non-stop, at their
>> best to get
>> > > done with it.
>> > > Thus we had the idea to delegate initial translation
>> suggestions to
>> > > Google Translator Kit and review translations with humans
>> to speed
>> > > the process.
>> > >
>> > > We successfully did an import for circa 40 000 French
>> strings (yup
>> > > you read that right) this week-end in a mock project
>> called DDTP
>> > > Automation
>> (https://translations.launchpad.net/ddtpautomation).
>> > > To keep it short, the translations from this project
>> appear as
>> > > suggestions in the French DDTP, and can be reviewed by actual
>> > > translators.
>> > > We've started using them, and it turns out that a lot of
>> them are
>> > > actually useful and are speeding up the translation
>> process a lot.
>> > >
>> > > We detailed the (somewhat) tedious process in English at
>> > > http://lite.framapad.org/p/ddtpUbuntu
>> > > Questions and inquiries welcome.
>> > >
>> > > Pierre
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > ---
>> > > pierre.slamich at gmail.com <mailto:pierre.slamich at gmail.com>
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>>
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