launchpad-translations-coordinators team mailing list archive

[Milo Casagrande <milo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Il giorno sab, 27/12/2008 alle 16.38 +0100, Danilo Šegan ha scritto:
> No, that's why the team is named "-leaders" and not "-coordinators": I
> see why you wanted it renamed now.  What we want to do instead is set up
> a separate launchpad-translators team (no need to limit it to only team
> coordinators), and post announcements and have discussion there.

> Yeah, basically, except that I'd keep the "-leaders" team and open up
> entirely new team for anyone interested in notices.  Coordinators would
> be required to participate.

I'm of the same basic idea, I would prefer to keep the number of the
teams involved in all of this to a minimum: if we can do everything with
just two teams (-leaders and the new one), that would be better.

> IMHO, we should have a generic translation list open for everybody to
> participate in.  This should include discussions about both translation
> standards and launchpad translators group. It's also the place we'd sent
> announcements to.  If traffic turns out to be huge, we can set up a
> separate announcement mailing list later.

The problem is with the team to create for this mailing list: should it
be totally open? People like joining teams for having lots of Launchpad
icons, plus looks like there's always someone that gets subscribed to a
mailing list without even knowing...

Mailing lists are not available to groups... that would probably be a
nice feature... 

> However, I was under the impression that we wanted to use
> ubuntu-translators list for the time being.

I think we can use ubuntu-translators right now, or at least create the
new one and cross-post (as the new one would be totally empty) and
suggest people to subscribe.

> It's simple.  You check:
> 
>   1. A person owning the proposed team has already made significant
> contributions in either Ubuntu or big upstream projects (GNOME, KDE,
> Mozilla, OpenOffice.org), or they have done smaller contributions but
> have somebody who's done a lot vouch for them
>   1a. If for the language there exist no translations in any of the big
> projects (or rather, more importantly, KDE or GNOME, because they are
> the basis for Ubuntu), you let anyone who shows interest run a team
>   2. That person is subscribed to the main announcement mailing list
> (whatever that is)
>   3. That they have prepared at least a single wiki page with guidelines
> on how to do translations for the particular language; it doesn't have
> to be a wiki page, it can be a full web site containing detailed style
> guide and instructions.
> 
> (I just thought of number 3, but I believe that it is essential,
> especially since we'll be soon adding a link to such a web site for each
> team)
> 
> To keep things simple, just asking people proposing translation teams to
> give us a few pointers should do the trick.  I.e. they can easily point
> at PO files in both GNOME and KDE and we can check if they are listed as
> either Last-Translator and/or in translator-credits/NAME OF TRANSLATORS.
> We can probably figure out something similar for OOo and Mozilla, but
> they should be able to tell us that themselves (i.e. where to look it
> up).

I think that probably is better to have a page in help.launchpad.net or
wiki.ubuntu.com that details the "process" to get a team appointed to
"Launchpad Translators" group. We should document the 3-4 points
expressed by Danilo, plus what the person of the team should provide us
for making our life easier: links to their translations (if they have),
to their team page (they must have)... all that kind of stuff. One of
those detailed points is not OK, we suggest them what to do.

One note on point 1a from Danilo: if the team is totally new, they
should follow our "proposed guidelines" for running a team...

-- 
Milo Casagrande <milo@xxxxxxxxxx>

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