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Re: Import professional translations

 

Hope to Merge asap.


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 6:38 AM, Tom Fifield <fifieldt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> This is an amazing contribution! I also think option #1 is a good
> starting point :)
>
>
> On 15/05/13 19:01, Ying Chun Guo wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My company, IBM, has finished the translation of messages in Nova,
> > Glance, Keystone, Quantum and Cinder
> > to 9 languages (de, es, fr, it, ja, ko, pt_BR, zh_CN, zh_TW) for
> > Grizzly, by outsourcing to professional
> > translators. We tend to contribute these translations to community.
> >
> > Some volunteers have done part of the translations in Transifex. The
> > average completion percentage among all
> > these 9 languages is below 20%. If we can merge these professional
> > translations into Transifex, we can improve
> > the completion percentage to a very high number.
> >
> > In my mind, there are several ways to import professional translation to
> > Transifex:
> >
> > 1. Merge the professional version of po files and community version,
> > using the professional version when conflicting.
> > 2. Merge the community version of po files and professional version,
> > using the community version when conflicting.
> > 3. Import the professional translations as translation memory, thus the
> > professional translations will appear
> > as "suggestion" while volunteers do the translation in Transifex.
> >
> > I prefer the first one, because it can improve the percentage of
> > translation completion very quickly,
> > while the third one needs some time for volunteers to review the strings
> > one by one. What's more, the quality of
> > professional version should be better.
> >
> > I'm going to start this work. If you have any different opinions, please
> > let me know.
> >
> > Regards
> > Ying Chun Guo (Daisy)
> >
> >
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