Add an international translation to Osmocom

add an international translation to Osmocom

What exactly are you referring to here? And international translation

  • to which language[s] exactly
  • performed by whom (are you volunteering?)
  • of what exactly? The wiki pages of a specific osmocom project? The console/VTY of a specific program? The user manuals?

In general I’m relatively pessimistic about translations. If there’s a group of people who really want to commit to spend a lot of time on it and we can find a good technical solution for what they want to do - fine. But in all other cases, it’s not going to happen.

yes i volunteer translating into russian using online translator deepl i want to help translate everything about osmocom into russian.

I think this doesn’t make sense unless you

  1. have a plan to involve somebody who already knows and understands the respective osmocom software, and who can validate / fix the problems in the machine translated translation
  2. come up with a comprehensive plan for how to keep that translation always up-to-date

In my opinion, this is not feasible unless there was a considerably large team with resources to do that and to maintain it.

Also “everything about osmocom” is way too generic. If one starts such a task, it should be carefully weighed which parts should be translated. Who are the users? For which programs specifically? Having a scope of “everything” but not the resources to continously mantaint that is bound for failure.