[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen translations by the numbers

[Terran McCanna]

I believe Adam Bowling from Emerald Data Networks will be sending out a
message to the list soon, but I just wanted to chime in to say that they
are working on the Spanish translation at our behest and the translator
(Anahi Valdez) just started work on the project on Tuesday. She is working
directly in launchpad, so all of her updates are immediately available.

I agree that there's no point in putting a lot of effort into the languages
that aren't being used at the moment.


Terran McCanna
PINES Program Manager
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, GA 30345
404-235-7138
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org


On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Ben Shum <ben at evergreener.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> So I have been brainstorming the way translations are being handled
> for Evergreen lately and thinking about narrowing the focus to only
> specific languages that have actual users/support expressed somewhere.
>
> Right now, the build process just automatically attempts to grab
> whatever it can for all the languages that are being sync'd from
> Launchpad translations (https://translations.launchpad.net/evergreen).
> But it does not care about the actual readiness of those languages
> (i.e. how much is complete).  And it also does not represent actual
> "support" in any way either, but let's consider that a different
> problem...
>
> This is the list of what we're working with in the actual Evergreen
> code (along with relative total percent translated in Launchpad):
>
> ar-AR  -- Arabic (0.50%)
> cs-CZ  -- Czech (97.91%)
> de-DE  -- German (22.13%)
> en-CA  -- English (Canada) (70.73%)
> en-GB  -- English (UK) (66.89%)
> es-ES  -- Spanish (36.88%)
> fi-FI  -- Finnish (73.09%)
> fr-CA  -- French (52.84%)
> he-IL  -- Hebrew (1.08%)
> hu-HU  -- Hungarian (0.01%)
> hy-AM  -- Armenian (79.18%)
> oc-FR  -- Occitan, French? (16.82%)
> pt-BR  -- Brazilian Portuguese (58.84%)
> ru-RU -- Russian (49.43%)
> sv-SE  -- Swedish (0%)
> tr-TR  -- Turkish (6%)
>
> In the past with JSPAC, the language list included the following six,
> not including en-US default (which are still listed out in
> config.i18n_locale database table):
>
> cs-CZ  -- Czech
> en-CA  -- English (Canada)
> en-US  -- English (US)
> fi-FI  -- Finnish
> fr-CA  -- French (Canada)
> hy-AM  -- Armenian
> ru-RU  -- Russian
>
> My thinking is that languages that do not have significant amounts
> translated should be skipped till such time as there is better support
> available.  This would include from the list like Arabic, Hebrew,
> Hungarian, Swedish, and Turkish which are all under 10% and might only
> be represented due to incidental drive-by translations from other
> Launchpad sources.  Occitan, French is at 16%, but I'd be curious to
> know if we have actual support / users for this variation of French or
> if users largely follow the Canadian French files.
>
> Other translations that seem to have some moderate past (or present)
> activity include Brazilian Portuguese, German, and Spanish.
>
> All of this information is just to try seeing if we can come up with a
> better proposed "official" list of languages that Evergreen is
> translated into and we sync for when building releases in the future.
>
> Thoughts, opinions on trimming the list?  Any volunteers or outcry on
> specific languages?
>
> -- Ben
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-general/attachments/20160602/d5ad834b/attachment.html>