Freedesktop.org Transifex org management

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

Hey,

[I know this isn't directly related to GNOME, but has there is an
overlap between the folks involved in GNOME and in Transifex's
Freedesktop.org org, and GNOME is a consumer of those translations,
here I go]

I maintain shared-mime-info on freedesktop.org:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/

shared-mime-info uses Transifex as the translation service from back
when it was a Fedora hosted/sponsored project.

Somebody contacted me recently about how to get approved as a
translator for shared-mime-info for their language, which means getting
accepted as a translator in the "freedesktop" group:
https://www.transifex.com/freedesktop/public/

The problem is translators have had problems getting accepted into that
group, there seems to be no list of people to contact on the above
page, and, in the end, translators contact the module maintainers
directly, and they (I) know nothing about how transifex works from the
translator/group management side.

This is an example of the communication I received after some emails
discussions:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/merge_requests/17

And I've also found 8 more messages in my Transifex inbox from
translators who were trying to get accepted there.

I've been told Claude was responsible for the group. Is he still
responsible for it? Is there documentation we can point translators to
about applying for a position in the group? Or should I start looking
at other ways to get shared-mime-info (and other modules I maintain)
translated?

Cheers