Op Sa, 2011-09-03 om 22:33 +0200 skryf Andre Klapper: > Hi, > > Yesterday I tried to contact ~17 GNOME translation team leaders of teams > that look like losing translation coverage[1]. > > (In general I think that the GNOME translation community should be more > active in identifying potential problems and help with outreach to > downstream translation teams[2][3][4]. > I'm interested in thoughts of others on this.) > > As a first result to mention here, I received a 550 delivery failure for > the email address of the Dzongkha team[5] leader (CC'ed). > > How to proceed? Make it a "There is currently no established team for > this language." on l10n.gnome.org for the time being? > Contact downstream teams whether they somebody is interested in helping > upstream?
Thanks for taking initiative with this, André. It is really sad to see how some languages that were in excellent shape go backwards in just a few years. While a more accurate message on Damned Lies is good, the first prise would be to find a way to get inactive teams to become active again. A few observations: - Languages that lost just a few percentage points but wasn't that high (10%-20%) probably had the same amount of inactivity. - There is massive string churn: without activity, it seems that a language can loose more than 10% of their coverage in a year if they were reasonably complete before the inactivity. - On the other end of the scale, some languages have progressed remarkably well over the last few years. - It is sad that teams loose coverage, but hopefully we are improving in more teams than we are regressing. Let's have a look at this page with people that wanted to help: https://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/TeamBrainstorm Did we help these people in starting? I just stumbled on the page yesterday, and got into contact with Ernest, who sent his email to the list a few hours later. Let's see if we can pick up more teams. Friedel -- Recently on my blog: http://translate.org.za/blogs/friedel/en/content/virtaal-070-released _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
