First of all, I am glad so many people are willing to help in translation, this really impressess me.
David --- I get your idea, however I don't agree with it completely, and maybe this is because I haven't published any plans of our work, what will we translate and how.
Translation can be roughly divided into 3 parts: 1. www.reactos.com website, it should become multilanguage 2. ReactOS Documentation (it's part of www.reactos.com website, but it goes into another category) 3. ReactOS itself (all text, strings, dialogs, applications, etc). It should be discussed and people should agree on the prefereable way to do this (Robert Koepferl brings such a discussion into ros-general today).
We will start from translating the website, and then will plan our work on translating the ReactOS itself.
David - as for creating your own project, I understand what you mean, but this isn't the good way to do this, at least for now. I want all translation process be generalized, going smoothly in all languages. Though I think Japan language would be rather different, and it really may become a standalone project (as Chinese and other similar languages). If you have interesting ideas about organisation of the translation process --- please email list/me.
With the best regards, Aleksey Bragin.
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Hmm, i don't think a seperate project will be necessary, why do you think we need it (i think splitting up too much isn't good, actually, that's what sucks about linux imho atm).
I think it is easier because in german there are many who would like to work for the translation. it shouldn't be a standalon-project i think. the project should be a daughter-project. on other opensource-projects like openoffice there are also seperate daughter-projects. an it is nice.... there is much work for a languge project: translating the mainsite, translate the program, ...
david
Mark