From 76cc37c804064105d0fe2efe237fb707ff23a29a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: diego Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 19:46:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add note about translating in teams and taking over unmaintained translations. git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@19664 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 --- DOCS/tech/translations.txt | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/DOCS/tech/translations.txt b/DOCS/tech/translations.txt index d01827baed..1d60e73bde 100644 --- a/DOCS/tech/translations.txt +++ b/DOCS/tech/translations.txt @@ -21,6 +21,16 @@ http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-translations Send updates and patches to this mailing list or directly to the documentation or console message maintainers, see DOCS/tech/MAINTAINERS for details. +Experience shows that translations work best when done by teams. Not only +can the workload be shared, but there is also the chance to review the +translation. So if possible try to find more people to help out with +translating. + +Furthermore, if you take over an unmaintained translation, bring the existing +parts up-to-date before translating new ones. Outdated information is worse +than missing information and for the XML documentation missing parts are +automatically replaced by the English master files. + Translations of MPlayer documentation consist of 3 parts in descending order of importance: