[wp-polyglots] concerned... about french localizations

[Xavier Borderie]

> Seems to me there is more than one french
> localization project going on. 
> I'm a bit concerned we might be diluting our
> efforts. We can very well 
> work together and produce versions with various
> degrees of tolerance for anglicisms, for example.
> 
> Any thoughts about that, francophones?

I was concerned about it too, and asked Luc
Saint-Elie, apparent owner of the fr_FR translation :
he isn't involved.
http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-polyglots/2005-February/000078.html
[fr] Voici une partie de mon premier mail :

>  J'ai vu qu'existaient deux groupes de traduction FR
sur Rosetta
>pour WP1.5, et que vous êtes le gestionnaire de l'un
d'eux (le plus
>sérieux, vu l'état d'avancement).
>J'avais déjà pour ambition de revoir ma traduction à
l'aide des
>traductions tierces que l'on m'a fait parvenir.
>  Voyant votre effort en cours, je souhaiterai au
final que l'on
>mélange la version corrigée de WP1.2 que j'ai en
cours, avec votre
>traduction 1.5 afin de compléter les chaînes
manquantes (je ne sais
>pas si vous êtes partis de 1.2 ou si vous avez remis
les compteurs à
>zéro.
>Voyant que vous utilisez "billet" au lieu
d'"article", je suppose
>que c'est le second cas qui s'applique). Pouvez-vous
me donner votre
>avis sur la question, afin que nous puissions
travailler ensemble ?



The "French (_country_)" should be official, I think,
and therefore I wonder about the "French" one (which,
as of this morning, hadn't been updated since
mid-december of '04 - in the mean time someone made
some changes. Makes me think that Rosetta lacks a
proprer versionning system, even wiki-like - or am I
missing something?).

That "French" _could_ be used as a basis for all
others, but they could (probably) upload the existing
1.2 PO and start from there. fr_BE, fr_CA (no QC?) and
fr_CH have been recently started, and looking at the
numbers it looks like they started from a blank slate
instead of building upon the 1.2 PO.

Without any information from the Devs, I think we
should wait for notices about SVN accounts and such,
and build teams for the time being.

I must add, because of the seemingly lack of version
control on Rosetta, I find it to be not as useful as I
would have hoped. So I repeat : am I missing something
? Can only admins access these ?

For my part, I am more than willing to take part in
the fr_FR effort, and build upon what I did for WP1.2
([fr] mais en mieux ;) ). I am perusing through the
O'Reilly Subversion book between one task and RSIGuard
:)


Sorry for the rushed ideas, I have to be at my
father's birthday :)



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