[Phpmyadmin-devel] about the "incomplete translation" message

Marc Delisle marc at infomarc.info
Tue Apr 26 16:34:35 CEST 2011


Michal Čihař a écrit :
> Hi
> 
> Dne Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:19:21 +0200
> Tyron Madlener <tyronx at gmail.com> napsal(a):
> 
>> I would set the minimum requirement to 30%. Untranslated strings
>> default to english anyway, right? If the user is warned about it's
>> incompletion he won't be negatively surprised. Also, an average user
>> that just needs simple table management probably needs only 10-20% of
>> the translation anyway (just guessing).
> 
> Yes, having translated 10% top used strings would be good enough for
> many users. However we don't have any such metric, so we can just base
> on all strings.
> 
> Anyway I plan to lower the ratio for final release, the 50% percent was
> set intentionally too strict for rc to see if somebody will complain
> about dropped language. I think 30% will be reasonable (it would add 20
> more translations compared to 50%).

We'll see the effect of this, starting with 3.4.0-rc2 which will be 
released in a few hours. Due to a bug, there were no dropped language 
files in 3.4.0-rc1.

> 
>> I still think that allowing the use of (very) uncompleted translation
>> would more likely get users involved in the translation project.
> 
> Indeed, that's why the warning about incomplete translation has been
> added.
> 

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