On 25/02/2013 Rob Weir wrote:
And maybe that starts getting too geeky when we post PO files in tar.bz2 format, a format unheard of to Windows users who comprise 90%+ of our users?
This is surely a steep learning curve. And I believe we do lose volunteers at this step.
Look around. How many volunteers have come through asking to help about Hebrew, Greek and Portuguese? Isn't a non-optimal that they haven't managed to coordinate on the translation? Isn't it non-optimal that we have no idea whether this is even being worked on? That is the problem we're facing.
And Pootle is the solution. A working Pootle installation, with a well-thought access policy, allows effortless collaboration and monitoring.
we need to help with the coordination side as well. And this might mean smart use of technology rather than just complaining that technology is hard.
In March we can try the BugZilla way. We can probably even start the registration process at https://issues.apache.org/ooo/createaccount.cgi leaving to volunteers the only task of confirming their e-mail address. This should be simple enough for everybody, if we explain it properly.
But in the medium-long term I really believe that Pootle will make the difference.
Regards, Andrea.
