I feel the same in other ways not related to translations in terms of tryign to search for bugs for instance as well as filing bugs :-/
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Michael Bauer <[email protected]> wrote: > It's hard to say, that's for sure. I suspect many people who struggle > never actually make it as far as the list but just give up. Perhaps the > figures for translator-only attrition could shed some light on this, if > they existed. > > Also, LP seems to have not so great a reputation out there amongst pure > localizers. I have been cautioned at least on 4 occassions by highly active > localizers in other small-ish languages against using LP for anything but > Ubuntu specific modules. For a variety of reasons, I ended up doing a lot > more than that but that's by the by. > > Don't get me wrong, I truly *like* the idea of a single place for handling > lots of different localization projects, be that LP or Pootle based, but > there are some rather serious issues with LP which (especially given the > recent problems that have emerged, at least for this locale) greatly > detract from it's potential usefulness. > > Michael > > 26/05/2013 13:00, sgrìobh > ubuntu-translators-request@**lists.ubuntu.com<[email protected]> > : > >> I am far from a developer and have never contributed a line of code yet I >> >was able to self teach myself how to contribute to translations. I'm not >> >suggesting there aren't areas that can be improved but just wanted to say >> >that in my years of experience Michael's recent issues appear to be an >> >exception rather than the rule. As Daniel has already provided some great >> >advice to Michael on his current situation I will not get involved in >> that >> >and confuse the matter further but I did want to point out that the >> system >> >that is currently in use is far from perfect but more than adequate. >> > > > -- > ubuntu-translators mailing list > ubuntu-translators@lists.**ubuntu.com<[email protected]> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-**translators<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators> > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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