On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 18:05 +0100, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote: > On vr, 2009-03-20 at 10:39 +0000, Matthew East wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Adi Roiban <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Via the following question : > > > https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/rosetta/+question/64194 > > > I found out that the Ubuntu Dutch translation team is somehow closed and > > > is asking new translators to work upstream. > > > > This, if true, is extremely worrying. The Dutch translation team > > contains many experienced contributors to Ubuntu (I've copied some of > > them into this email) and I don't think they would intentionally wish > > to subvert one of the fundamental policies of Ubuntu (making the > > software available in the user's own language) for Dutch speakers. > > Clearly there are a lot of Ubuntu-specific strings, and Ubuntu > > documentation is only translatable through Launchpad, so an active > > translation team for Ubuntu in Launchpad is absolutely essential. > > > > Let's find out what the problem is, if any, and take it from there. > > The team is not closed, but due to lots of quality issues we had in the > past, we're not accepting just anyone. Jeroen calls the problem legacy, > but it has been fixed only very recently in launchpad after waiting and > complaining for years. > > On the ubuntu-nl forum thread quoted in that question it is also > explained that until we as a team have proper procedures for this, the > team stays closed as we don't want this happening again. The Danish team > are doing the same apparently. > > If someone show he knows how to handle translations, (eg, don't touch > upstreams in LP if they accept po files as well), sure he's welcome.
Thank you all for your help. This problem is solved :). Also some of the upstream import problems should be now fixed in Rosetta. As far as I understand the team is not closed, it's only that new memberships is moderated and new translators should prove they know how to deal with translations in Ubuntu. I agree with you! Keep up the good work! -- Adi Roiban -- ubuntu-translators mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators
