RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] Translation: Lauchpad's Rosetta vs. SVN

[Markus Nerding <m.nerding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Up to what I have seen until now Rosetta is simply not usable to do a 
good translation in proper time. It has nearly no features to help 
the translator (no translation memory import/export, no search, no 
sorting) besides showing all the other translations (even 3 times the 
same ones from the same author ?!). It also has a very poor 
interface. So working with it is a waste of time. Doing it with an 
external editor also does not work well because of the poor and very 
slow import and the difficulties to decide for an alternate 
translation after the import and much more...

So I discussed that with the other two German translators for a while 
and decided to stop my activities.

Regards,
-Markus


At 10:55 23.08.2006, you wrote:

> > > It's maybe possible to do both: ability to work with SVN, and a
> script
> > > which daily merge with Rosetta. It's maybe even possible to access
> the
> > > Rosetta's translation files through SVN.
> > No, it is (in practise) not possible. You want to have only one
> official
> > version stored per language - either the database of Launchpad or in
> SVN.
>
> I'm concerned to hear about these problems with Rosetta. The first
> translators we had feedback from recommended that we use Rosetta and it
> seemed the natural way to go. And within a short time of the Xara LX
> project appearing in Rosetta, around 40 translators started to work on
> it! I can't imagine that we'd have generated such interest from
> translators had we not gone into Rosetta.
>
> So given the shear number of translators that seem to use Rosetta and
> the fact that we've just gone to a lot of trouble to setup a process
> using it, I'd like to stick with it for now at least.
>
> In a month or 2, I'll poll opinion amongst the active translators to see
> if they'd prefer another solution along the lines you suggest. And
> perhaps in the meantime Rosetta will improve to address these concerns.
> I've asked the Rosetta admin that I've been talking to for his reaction
> to the problems you've raised.
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil