Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Recruiting translators/editors

2014-09-02 Thread Mihovil Stanic

One of Pootle shortcomings in my experience is lack of changes tracking.

I don't see Pootle as techi tool. If you know how to log into facebook 
and post comment, you know how to translate on Pootle.
But problem is, new people don't know what they did good and what wasn't 
good.


For example, when you get new team member, you don't give him write 
permission, only permission to suggest.
He makes 50 string suggestions, and I go trough all of them accepting, 
refusing and editing mistakes.

But when I'm done, he can't possibly know what I accepted or corrected.

My first translation was Mozilla Thunderbird, and my mentor was long 
time Firefox translator.
HG was terrible, terrible tool for translating, but one of it strong 
points was change tracking.
I learned what I did wrong and how to improve my translations from that 
same change tracking system.

Sometime I even corrected mentor, everyone makes mistakes. :)

I miss something like that in Pootle, to provide new people way to see 
their mistakes and improve their skills with that.


Best regards,
Mihovil

2.9.2014 u 10:26, Tom Davies je napisao/la:

Hi :)
2 separate issues;

1.
Wrt recruiting new people there is a constant source of potential new 
people on the various Users Support mailing lists.


Most have arrived there to get answers to 1 or 2 questions and were 
t focused and/or confused to notice any of the other stuff that 
goes on, such as different mailing-lists for different teams.  Often 
people on those mailing lists have no idea how to get involved.  They 
are often surprised to learn that they can join other teams just as 
'easily' as they joined the Users Support mailing list and that the 
instructions on how to do so were right at the beginning of their trek 
to join the Users Support mailing lists.


I think mentioning, about once per month (or maybe fortnightly but not 
too often)) the L10n mailing list and maybe your specific language 
mailing lists on your User Support mailing-lists might attract some 
good people.



2.
As far as native English speakers go, the people in their current 
Documentation Team's mailing list are not very technically minded and 
had a big struggle trying to understand how to edit wiki's.  Anything 
more complex, even Pootle, would be a major blocker for them.  They 
all use ODFAuthors.  So, anyone new only gets help as long as they are 
trying to use ODFAuthors too.


I try to help people understand how to do wiki-editing but i am a 
hugely unpopular maverick there.  People generally don't join these 
teams to instantly find themselves embroiled in a fight = they just 
want to get on with doing something useful.  So new people joining 
their team either also avoid me and wiki-editing or drop-out.  The 
English Faq has been mostly done by Sophie and Alex (who seem to be in 
all teams and have tons of energy) or by people who are nothing to do 
with the English Docs Team.  The English-speakers Documentation Team 
can only cope with doing the Published Guides.



So,
1.  I think you might be able to recruit more people from the User 
Support mailing lists but don't spam them with adverts and requests 
too much or too often!  There are other places such as social media 
and all the usual good places to market stuff but the User Support 
mailing lists are an extra place that might be fruitful.


2.  If you want native English speakers then you might have to think 
how to attract people who are not already in the English-speakers 
Documentation Team.


Regards from
Tom :)




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Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Recruiting translators/editors

2014-09-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)
2 separate issues;

1.
Wrt recruiting new people there is a constant source of potential new
people on the various Users Support mailing lists.

Most have arrived there to get answers to 1 or 2 questions and were t
focused and/or confused to notice any of the other stuff that goes on,
such as different mailing-lists for different teams.  Often people on those
mailing lists have no idea how to get involved.  They are often surprised
to learn that they can join other teams just as 'easily' as they joined the
Users Support mailing list and that the instructions on how to do so were
right at the beginning of their trek to join the Users Support mailing
lists.

I think mentioning, about once per month (or maybe fortnightly but not too
often)) the L10n mailing list and maybe your specific language mailing
lists on your User Support mailing-lists might attract some good people.


2.
As far as native English speakers go, the people in their current
Documentation Team's mailing list are not very technically minded and had a
big struggle trying to understand how to edit wiki's.  Anything more
complex, even Pootle, would be a major blocker for them.  They all use
ODFAuthors.  So, anyone new only gets help as long as they are trying to
use ODFAuthors too.

I try to help people understand how to do wiki-editing but i am a hugely
unpopular maverick there.  People generally don't join these teams to
instantly find themselves embroiled in a fight = they just want to get on
with doing something useful.  So new people joining their team either also
avoid me and wiki-editing or drop-out.  The English Faq has been mostly
done by Sophie and Alex (who seem to be in all teams and have tons of
energy) or by people who are nothing to do with the English Docs Team.  The
English-speakers Documentation Team can only cope with doing the Published
Guides.


So,
1.  I think you might be able to recruit more people from the User Support
mailing lists but don't spam them with adverts and requests too much or too
often!  There are other places such as social media and all the usual good
places to market stuff but the User Support mailing lists are an extra
place that might be fruitful.

2.  If you want native English speakers then you might have to think how to
attract people who are not already in the English-speakers Documentation
Team.

Regards from
Tom :)




On 1 September 2014 19:30, Mihovil Stanic libreoff...@miho.im wrote:

 Thanks for heads up, but I'm on Pootle since last Mozilla summit, so
 almost a year now. :)

 I was describing my workflow before Pootle, just to point our how easy is
 to translate with tool like that.

 Best regards,
 Mihovil

 1.9.2014. u 20:22, Rimas Kudelis je napisao/la:

  not that it's very relevant here, but just to let you know, you can
 actually translate Firefox and Thunderbird in Pootle as well. I migrated
 most of my Mozilla work to Pootle just a few weeks ago. There were some
 migration-related bumps, but I'm gonna see how it goes from here. Rimas



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Re: [libreoffice-l10n] [pootle] Templates update for 4.3.2 (ui) [2014-09-02]

2014-09-02 Thread Valter Mura
In data martedì 2 settembre 2014 16:50:01, Christian Lohmaier ha scritto:
 Hi *,
 
 update_against_templates is currently running for libo_ui (and help).
 
 One string was removed from help, so nothing to do there for you.
 
 In ui, the fileformat labels for some *Works formats were made more
 specific.
 
 Instead of just Foo Document and Foo Document it is now Foo Text
 Document and Foo Spreadsheet
 
 See the list of changes here:
 
 (total of 12 strings in filter/source/config/fragments/filters.po)
 

Thanks for the advice, Christian

Ciao
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Re: [libreoffice-l10n] [pootle] Templates update for 4.3.2 (ui) [2014-09-02]

2014-09-02 Thread Olivier Hallot
Hi Christian

On 02-09-2014 11:50, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
 Hi *,
 
 update_against_templates is currently running for libo_ui (and help).
 
 One string was removed from help, so nothing to do there for you.
 
 In ui, the fileformat labels for some *Works formats were made more specific.
 
 Instead of just Foo Document and Foo Document it is now Foo Text
 Document and Foo Spreadsheet
 
 See the list of changes here:
 
 (total of 12 strings in filter/source/config/fragments/filters.po)
 
 ciao
 Christian
 

I must have made something really wrong... I reloaded the templates for
the UI and I got a mix of the UI and zero translated HELPCONTENT in the
same project...

https://translations.documentfoundation.org/pt_BR/libo_ui/

Can you please help me to fix it?

Thank you

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[libreoffice-l10n] Re: [pootle] Templates update for 4.3.2 (ui) [2014-09-02]

2014-09-02 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Argh, of course old link posted...
http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/tmp/pootle_43_2014-09-02/template_update_14-09-02.html
is the current diff.

ciao
Christain

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