Michael I have pretty much ceased following the lists, as they seemed to stop following me.
But I was wrong. I'll send a note to nlc, l10n and others Wednesday, informing them of the good news of their possible resurrection, even as Apaches :-) Cheers, Louis On 12 December 2011 18:36, Michael Bauer <f...@akerbeltz.org> wrote: > 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 ;)
