Translations

[Nick Wellnhofer]

On 16/12/2010 16:10, Andrew Whitworth wrote:
> Input welcome.

One thing we should be aware of is that translations need to be updated. 
Imagine we had README translations before the switch to git. That would 
have made all the translated READMEs outdated at once and I guess it 
would have taken quite some time to update them. So there should be a 
way to mark translations as outdated.

Personally, I think translations are a waste of time because it's simply 
too hard to write good translations and keep them updated. We'd better 
spend that time elsewhere. There has been some discussion about the 
quality of the translated READMEs already. No offense to the GCI 
participants, of course. I wouldn't have written better translations 
when I was that age. I can only speak for the German version but as it 
stands now I'd even consider it off-putting for German language users. I 
can offer to fix that although I'd rather spend my time on other things.

Nick