changeset 19658:5e98034a49ec

Add note about translating in teams and taking over unmaintained translations.
author diego
date Sun, 03 Sep 2006 19:46:57 +0000
parents a75995bf41e6
children 3d709c2de791
files DOCS/tech/translations.txt
diffstat 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/DOCS/tech/translations.txt	Sun Sep 03 19:30:57 2006 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/tech/translations.txt	Sun Sep 03 19:46:57 2006 +0000
@@ -21,6 +21,16 @@
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+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  Outdated information is worse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: