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Bug 538223 - i10n african and creole languages support missing
i10n african and creole languages support missing
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: l10n
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: other
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME i18n team
Christian Rose
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-06-13 22:23 UTC by Paulo Silva
Modified: 2008-12-14 21:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Paulo Silva 2008-06-13 22:23:31 UTC
i'm missing support on african (kimbundu, zulu, xhosa and others) and creole (jamaican, capeverdian, etc.) languages on l10n: do they exists anyway? there are people used to have these languages as their main language...
Comment 1 Claude Paroz 2008-06-14 07:28:05 UTC
Could you tell us exactly where they are missing?
All languages which have some translations in GNOME should be listed on http://l10n.gnome.org/languages
Comment 2 André Klapper 2008-12-14 20:18:10 UTC
If the reporter complains about non-existing language teams then this is not a bug at all.
Comment 3 Christian Rose 2008-12-14 20:26:47 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> If the reporter complains about non-existing language teams then this is not a
> bug at all.

Well, missing functionality could technically be considered a feature request. However, there is no way we can add support for languages without volunteers or a magic wand. For the affected languages, we have none of those, unless the reporter is volunteering himself?
Comment 4 André Klapper 2008-12-14 20:34:18 UTC
I've commented this before - if we want to keep feature requests for "Support language foo" or even "Bring language bar to 100%" then I will write a script to file a billion reports in the next days.
No.
Comment 5 Christian Rose 2008-12-14 21:00:13 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> I've commented this before - if we want to keep feature requests for "Support
> language foo" or even "Bring language bar to 100%" then I will write a script
> to file a billion reports in the next days.
> No.

I fully agree, and I agree this bug should be closed! Don't take me wrong.

I was merely pointing out that it is still technically a feature request, even if it is worthless and adds nothing of value -- we already know we do not cover a lot of languages. But saying "this is not a bug" is to give the wrong reason. "This feature request adds nothing of value, because we already know this, and without volunteers there is nothing we can do about it" would have been a better reasoning.