Thorough review of Spanish Translation

[darius (Darius Jazayeri)]

@sommardahl

I think you are correct about “across latin america”, but as one of my colleagues pointed out to me earlier today, Spanish in Spain is significantly different from Spanish in other parts of the world. It could be that, by changing “es” to match Latin America, we alienate European Spanish speakers.

This is true, but since Bahmni targets low-resource settings, we’re much more interested in the Latin America use case. I would make Latin American Spanish the Bahmni default.

@sommardahl

We spoke this morning and we decided it will be a better approach to deploy Bahmni with the “es” locale and let the users tell us what to change based on what they see. So, we will forego a system-wide translation/review effort up-front in lieu of a more agile approach. We will either be correcting, translating and/or reviewing along the way.

This makes sense.

One thing to note is that Transifex lets you add comments to translations, so if people are in there translating, and they come across something suspect, they can add a comment for later review.

So you know the history, the initial Spanish translation was done by a pair of Ecuadorian developers on the Bahmni team (so, fluent in computer Spanish, but not medical Spanish). And I believe that further additions were made for an endTB deployment in Peru.