On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> On 09.08.2013 23:54, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_elego.de> wrote:
>>>> Mattias Engdegård wrote on Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 19:40:00 +0200:
>>>>> 8 aug 2013 kl. 08.21 skrev Daniel Shahaf:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Mattias Engdegård wrote on Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 23:43:36 +0200:
>>>>>>> Sorry about the late reply; I rarely have time to read the
>>>>>>> development
>>>>>>> list. It seems unlikely that many translators do - how are they
>>>>>>> notified
>>>>>>> about the need to update their translations? It is common to have
>>>>>>> this as
>>>>>>> an explicit step in the release process; perhaps I have missed the
>>>>>>> broadcasts so far.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> We don't have such a step. I don't know if such announcements have
>>>>>> been
>>>>>> sent, but .de translator Jens Seidel also expressed interest in having
>>>>>> such --- so perhaps we [c|sh]ould do that in the future.
>>>>> Please consider that a strong suggestion then. After all, there can be
>>>>> no surprise at the lack of translations if nobody thought of telling the
>>>>> translators.
>>>>>
>>>>> The usual way is to alert the translators when a release is about to be
>>>>> made, but leaving them some time to actually do the work -- maybe a week
>>>>> or two. It could be a good idea to notify them each time a new release
>>>>> branch is forked off as well, since a lot of strings may have changed
>>>>> from the previous release and that will give a little more time for
>>>>> preparation.
>>>> Should we retroactively send a round of "Hey, 1.8.x has been released,
>>>> please update translations on trunk and 1.8.x" ?
>>>>
>>>> Can you update docs/community/releasing.part.html or roadmap.html with
>>>> a reminder to consider sending a Call For Translations to translators?
>>> Just following this discussion from a distance, but: do we have a
>>> "translation manager" [1]? Seems like this "alert the translators"
>>> task (and keeping tabs on whoever are the current active translators
>>> to keep in the loop) is a pretty good fit for such a person. If we
>>> don't have an active translation manager at this time, perhaps someone
>>> would like to volunteer?
>>>
>>> [1] http://producingoss.com/en/share-management.html#translation-manager
>> Or, as Daniel replied to me offlist, it would also be great if someone
>> volunteered just for this specific task of soliciting translations
>> from existing translators when 1.9.0-rc1 is announced (and perhaps
>> retro-actively poll people for 1.8). This person doesn't necessarily
>> need to take on more responsibilities.
>
> Why do we need a volunteer? We can just teach release.py to generate the
> e-mail (same as for announcements) and document this in the release process.
>
Even better. Perhaps the only thing missing then is a list of (the
email addresses of) all active translators (and someone who keeps that
list up to date). Or is there some mailing list for reaching all the
translators (knowing that they don't all routinely watch the dev or
the users lists)?
--
Johan
Received on 2013-08-10 00:19:23 CEST