Re: unneeded translations?

Giuseppe Sacco <[email protected]> Sat, 15 Nov 2025 21:17:26 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.internationalization.general,gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Thomas

Il giorno sab, 15/11/2025 alle 13.05 +0100, Thomas Lange ha scritto:
[...]
> > > > >=20
> Just one example:
>=20
> Yesterday I've delete the translation of the releases page for
> vietnamese, ukrainian, turkish, slovak, romanian, persian, japanese,
> indonesian, hungarian, galician, finnish, czech, croatian, bulgarian,
> arabic
>=20
> The translators of these languages did not updated the important
> release page for years the those pages still listed bullseye or a
> much older release as the current stable release.
> Seven of them listed Debian 9 as stable.
>=20
> Is there any better indication, that these translators are not active
> any more?

Yes, sure. A translator may be active, even very active, and working on
different pages or on a different project (like translating a complete
guide).

In your shoes, instead of deleting those pages, I would have written to
the related l10n team asking them to check those pages and think about
a solution. The coordinators would have probably tried to find a
translator willing to work on those pages. If no translator could be
found, than the coordinators could have chosed how to proceed.

Bye,
Giuseppe