Kenneth Nielsen wrote: > > And the maintainer may have better priorities than fixing those strings in > > their sources. Keep them with the freedom of understanding their own program > > and maintaining it cleanly. > But development is not just about coding, proper GUI-polishing is just as much > a part of that development-process. I did not speak about GUI polishing. But the quality of translations has nothing to do with GUI polishing. A GUI can be very clean and cute in one language and perfectly localizable to US English without requiring the root language to be US English. Translation requires very different skills from programming and from designing a GUI. They are best done by different people, that also prefer working in their own choice of languages. The fact that most developers can read English (because it is needed to understand many API documentation), is not defining a required skill in being able to write correctly in this language. If those developers can't write correctly in US English, this does not remove anything to their merit because this is not what we are asking to them. Yes they will certainly team with others to provide better translations, but for their everyday job, this will complicate their task or create confusion in their own work on the code if they have to master a terminology and syntax they are not at ease to work with. What you want here, is to require that all open-source developers become excellent translators of US English. You are requiring skills that are not related to what we demand to excellent developers. There are many excellent translators that are very poor coders. Excellent programmers with excellent knowledge in aparticular domain of programming are rare and precious; we must certainly not insult them, or they will stop cooperating to the free/open-source projects and will return to their better paid activities that will give them much less troubles than discussing with insulting people that don't respect them...
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