Re: Contacting i18n/l10n team

Helge Kreutzmann <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:14:16 +0000
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.internationalization.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Hello Christian,
Am Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 09:32:29AM +0000 schrieb [email protected]:
> Am 18.06.2024 11:21 schrieb Helge Kreutzmann:
> > This needs to be decided per language team. I'm personally not fond of
> > web based tools and anonymus contributions have not had the best
> > quality in the past. And you cannot talk to the submitters at all.
> 
> Weblate canb be configured that way that only logged in persons are able to
> contribute.
> It is also very easy to "talk" to the contributors via the comment fields.

This really depends on your definition of "talk". IMHO, e-mail is much
more powerful and can be better refernced, see e.g. the Debian lists,
which you can search and reference. 

But of course, this depends on the team.

> Weblate is definitely not perfect. Especially their upstream team IMHO has a
> lacy definition of usability and "good" documentation.
> But to my research it is currently the only acceptable platform in FLOSS
> environment. And their development is very active.

I would contend this. There are many translation communities working
without weblate. 

In my (non research) opintion weblate is good, if you don't have a
real translation community, then users can come by and contribute. But
if you really try to have translation teams (especially for larger
ecosystems), then some kind of stable communication format is IMHO
quite a good idea, e.g. for consistency, planing work[1], communicating
with the original authors etc.

So it really depends on the projects needs.

Greetings

          Helge

[1] To be precise: I work on several projects as translators. In one
    project also weblate is activated and I had random users overwrite
    my maintained translation (e.g. they worked on it, inconsistenly,
    without asking me). They are not to blame: They just saw the
    "missing" strings and "helped out". But this left me fixing
    instead of translating.

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