I just want to reiterate that please be a bit more patient, or you might be slowing things down (I know it's already quite slow).
Regards, Aron On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Mingye Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for that reply. Now I finally got time to read it carefully. > Apart from correcting your misunderstandings on the current master > status, I have something more to say. > >> accept updates to released branches .. only if the master branch is >> updated at the same time [sentence restructured] > > For versions, actually we don't lack people putting things onto master, > neither do we lack people porting pending changes on old branches into > master. We need people who backports master changes into the stable > branches that are still being maintained officially by GNOME. > >> I don't really think releasing those ones are really meaningful... >> Updates sent to old branches > > The branches marked as stable (not 'old stable') are older than master, > but they are still being maintained. GNOME 3.18.2 and GTK+ 3.18.3 has > just been released, and I consider it a shame that without my backported > (upload master translations and let msgmerge do the job) GTK+ 3.18 > translation, users are going to be in some astonishment seeing > translations for Copy and Paste were missing. > > It's nice to aim for the future, but why not make the current status > better too with just a little effort? > >> limitations of manpower > > For selecting reviewers, you might want to start with translators who > are more experienced (e.g. a lot) or are physically closer to you (e.g. > Bin Li). To be honest, with the online diff capacity, reviewing changes > is really not that time-consuming. > > Anyway, narrow down your candidate list first. Just focus on a few > particular persons to check for, and then you can select nice reviewers > from them. For translations by those narrowed-down group of translators, > you can even simply go to there profile page and hand-run some easy > sampling so you can determine if they're capable faster. You can later > find more reviewers by reading the comments from the first-batch reviewers. > > * * * > > I hope I am not getting too offensive.. Bai sent me some shxt_linus_says > PDF a couple of days ago and, well, it's somehow funny to read. > > -- > Best Regards, > > Arthur2e5 > _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
