[OSM-dev] Improved i18n diff script for railsport translators

[Andy Allan]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Vitor George<vitor.george at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm just arriving in this list but I strongly agree about having a specific
> list for i18n issues. there is a lot of work to be done in several fronts
> and the information about it is mostly sparse.
>
> For a country where the adoption of English is very low, like Brazil,
> translating is a essential thing to grow the number of volunteers.

I'm not disputing that! I just don't really understand what emails or
discussions aren't appropriate for either a) a native-language list or
b) dev at osm.org

Cheers,
Andy

> Vitor
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð
>> Bjarmason<avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > And finally, is this the preferred mailing list to talk about i18n
>> > issues? Maybe we should have some forum especially for this as
>> > interest in matters that concern i18n in rails are probably pretty
>> > orthogonal to the general concerns of -dev. And people who are just
>> > interested in translating the website to their language are thus
>> > unlikely to sign up.
>>
>> I'd say it's fine for now. It's unclear how big a deal translations
>> are going to be in the medium term - the interface of
>> openstreetmap.org has been pretty stable over the last few years and
>> most translation work so far has been catching up with what we have
>> already rather than aiming for a moving target. And anything other
>> than "what's this in my language" *is* a topic for the dev list.
>>
>> If there's still lots of translation stuff needing discussed in a few
>> months time, then maybe we would be better off with a separate list.
>> But I'd say it's fine here for now.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy
>>
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