Scottish Gaelic

[Michael Bauer]

Hi Tom,

Well, the "translator" in question has recently deleted his account as 
as far as I can tell, is no longer adding translations. And the problem 
wasn't so much that he was undoing our work, it was that he was 
continually adding "new translations". Splitting Gaelic into more than 
one locale is a really bad idea, the divisions are not that bad to begin 
with and with less than 60,000 speakers, maintaining *2* is not going to 
work. So just keeping the one gd locale is the preferred option. And 
apart from Linux Mint, we have done the lion's share of proofreading.

However, having said that, I do think Ubuntu on the whole needs a proper 
process for dealing with such problems. It's bound to happen in other 
locales and it will, in the end, harm the image of the project if there 
is no way of preventing really bad translations from reaching the 
general public (and removing or at least hiding them from the 
suggestions, some strings now in gd have so many bad suggestions 
attached they sometimes run outside the screen...). We all laugh at Coca 
Cola and Co for producing bad translations of advertisements which are 
hilarious in another language - but sometimes in open source projects I 
get the feeling that people are too willing to assume that peer review 
will fix everything.

Michael

18/10/2013 10:57, sgrìobh Tom Davies:
> Hi :)
> There is a deep division between the team working on the translations 
> for Scottish Gaelic and an individual.
>
> I've been worrying about how we can resolve the situation.  Even 
> though it is uncomfortable and we would normally leave it to the 
> individuals to resolve the situation i think it would be good if there 
> was some way we could step in and do something.  Otherwise this 
> festering problem is only likely to get worse leaving us with at least 
> 2 angry scotsmen and even just 1 is dangerous enough.
>
> Could we create a new 'team' and language code and move the 
> individual's translations into that?  Then the rest of the team can 
> carry on with the good work they do without finding all their work 
> undone by the individual?
>
> There are several dialects within the country and deep divisions 
> between people from different areas.  Edinburgh vs Glasgae vs the 
> isles and even between places even closer together.
>
> So, could we set-up a separate language code and team?
> Regards from
> Tom :)

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