Re: Freedesktop.org Transifex org management

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le 26.02.19 à 12:59, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> 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.
(...)
> 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.
(...)
> I've been told Claude was responsible for the group. Is he still
> responsible for it?

Yes, and Piotr Drąg has also admin access.

> Is there documentation we can point translators to
> about applying for a position in the group?

I think the main problem is not how to apply, but rather what to do when 
the coordinator is not reactive. That's an issue for every translation 
platform I know. Either you allow anyone to join and translate and you 
end up with mediocre results, or you appoint so-called coordinators, but 
those regularly disappear and if you don't have some list like 
gnome-i18n for managing thoses issues, you are stuck.
It's also true that Transifex used to overflow with notifications, and 
many people simply deactivate all of them, so they are not getting join 
requests.
When I'm aware of such blocked situations, I try to contact team 
coordinators and change the coordinatorship if someone volunteers. But I 
often don't know about such cases.

> Or should I start looking
> at other ways to get shared-mime-info (and other modules I maintain)
> translated?

You are of course free to choose the better way to get translations for 
your module. My role is not to defend Transifex or any other translation 
platform. The only thing is that if each freedesktop module chooses a 
different platform, it's a heavy burden for translators trying to 
translate all of those modules.

I guess GNOME would of course be open to setup a connection with 
freedesktop Gitlab so as translators can commit through our 
l10n.gnome.org Web interface. But I don't know if this is politically 
acceptable as a cross-desktop product.

Regards,

Claude
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