Hi folks,
I admit to mostly lurking but kinda feel compelled to chip in at this
point. First off, I'm "just a translator", I came to OO late in the day
to resucitate the Scottish Gaelic localization which had fallen format.
I have no coding skills, at least none at the level needed to contribute
code, so I consider my skills in translation my contribution. As such, I
usually have little interest in the direction projects such as OO,
Mozilla w/e take, code-wise or politically, except for trying to promote
translator-friendly localization processes.
The impending rift and eventual split took me completely by surprise.
Literally. One day I had been translating away in Pootle, the next day
it was dead and it took a lot of googling to eventually figure out what
had been going on. I'm just glad I had taken a backup the day before, I
don't know how many nascent projects have had their entire work frozen
on Pootle since. Which is why I felt a little irked by the suggestion
someone made that interested NL projects could "come forward". If it
hadn't been for someone's blog post I came across eventually, I *still*
wouldn't know that OO had "shifted" to Apache. I suspect very few NL
projects will have come forward because for a long time it was not
obvious to people not hooked into the develpment mailing lists
(conjecture, mylord) that that's what happened. Apart from spam, nothing
has ever been posted on the l10n list which was the only list I had
subscribed to for the above reasons.
So if "we're" supposed to step forward, perhaps someone should let the
l10n list subscribers know?
My main concern are the Gaelic users, however few those may be, who are
still stuck on 3.01 and who know nothing of this break, apart from the
fact that the extensions site has been going offline regulary. So I'd
like to find some way of completing the localization - which should be
relatively easy as I completed it over on LO, so they can finally update
to whatever version is next.
Salude e trigu,
Michael
And incidentally, translation *is* a technical skill - it just doesn't
involve code dancing across the screen ;)
