El mar, 02-11-2010 a las 15:20 +0100, David Planella escribió: > Hi translators, > > I've been meaning to ask you for your opinion on this for a while. > Having just spent 10 minutes looking for the e-mail address of a > language team coordinator has actually prompted me to do it now. > > So the question is: > > * Should we request translation team leaders to have a visible > e-mail address in Launchpad? > > And the background is: > > I believe translation team leaders should be people that are easily > contactable, both by the Ubuntu Translations Coordinators team and by > other translators, and having a hidden translation address in Launchpad > does not make things easy. As a reminder: having a visible e-mail > address in Launchpad makes it only visible to other people who have > logged in with a valid account in Launchpad - so it's not just visible > to anyone. > > Now if it took me a non-trivial amount of time to find someone's address > today, I could imagine that it would be even more difficult for a new > translator not familiar with our workflow. One could argue that he or > she could use the "Contact this user" link, but that has its drawbacks: > you cannot have a record of the message sent, and it can be used only 3 > times a day to prevent spam, IIRC. > > This is not something new: other translations systems (GNOME, KDE, > Translation Project, etc.) request coordinators to have a known and > stable e-mail address, and in some of them it's even a policy. > > If the majority of you think it's a good idea, I'd propose to make it a > policy. To most of the translation team leaders, it will not make a > difference. To the few that have got a hidden e-mail address, they would > simply have to tick a checkbox to make it visible. > > Let me know what you think. +1/-1/comments/concerns...? > > Regards, > David. > +1
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