Improvements to help content

l10n
#1

Hi all,
We have had a discussion in the Danish community regarding the help
content. We have found a few strings with poor language and also a few
descriptions where we would like to suggest a better or more correct or
complete wording.

My question is how and where to submit such suggestions. Should we
submit a bug report or post the suggestion to the dev-list?

is there a procedure for this kind of feedback?

Cheers,
Leif Lodahl
The Danish Team

#2

I wonder if this isn't a good place for the x-comment language? I.e. a language where you can search for bad text and make a correction in Pootle. Then we can simply script extracting the fixes to apply then to the source text.

I know someone was looking into x-comment again, based on a review of the easy hack webpages. Not sure how far it has progressed.

#3

Hi Leif,

2011.06.13. 19:43 keltezéssel, leif írta:

Hi all,
We have had a discussion in the Danish community regarding the help
content. We have found a few strings with poor language and also a few
descriptions where we would like to suggest a better or more correct or
complete wording.

My question is how and where to submit such suggestions. Should we
submit a bug report or post the suggestion to the dev-list?

If you can make patches for the source, then send them to dev-list for
review. If you don't want to work with the source format, then please
file a bug. I think in most cases the improvement will be obvious, and
we don't have to invent a difficult reviewing/editing/proofreading
process. In case of doubt we can involve the documentation list.

Best regards,
Andras

#4

Hi Dwayne,

2011.06.14. 10:30 keltezéssel, Dwayne Bailey írta:

I know someone was looking into x-comment again, based on a review of
the easy hack webpages. Not sure how far it has progressed.

I have had a look into x-comment. Tools currently do not extract it
(they deal with 'abc-DE' language code format only). There are very few
x-comments in the source and even less meaningful x-comments, so I let
them alone for the time being.

Best regards,
Andras

#5

Hi Dwayne,

2011.06.14. 10:30 keltezéssel, Dwayne Bailey írta:

I know someone was looking into x-comment again, based on a review of
the easy hack webpages. Not sure how far it has progressed.

I have had a look into x-comment. Tools currently do not extract it
(they deal with 'abc-DE' language code format only).

is that because the tools haven't been setup to do it but can actually extract them.

  There are very few
x-comments in the source and even less meaningful x-comments, so I let
them alone for the time being.

Yes the current ones are horrible. But I'm not concerned about those.

What I was suggesting was that we have a debug language in Pootle. That way anyone can contribute a fix to a source string. It would be simple using pofilter to extract only those with changes and push those back into the source. It does require someone to do that but it makes it easy to push back a fix. Currently my guess is that none of us push back source text fixes because its way too hard to do.