Original mail from Gogo:
Hi to all! I really want to say, that it is not a matter o meritrocracy, democracy or any other cy! If the coordinator is ignorant, then sorry! I would like then to the orca main dev to give translation to the competent translators who can do it, me being a such with Milo, as i am translating NVDA screenreader since year 2014. The experience counts here. NVDA screenreader team also wanted to include all symbol translations from orca, Samuel thibaulth knows all the discussion, cause he contributed to the NVDA project, and some symbols are reallz taken from the orca symbols repositorz. The problem is, that we couldn't include the croatian or any other translation because of the too long and verbose translation, and not so intuitive translation for some languages. That also applies to croatian. So, if you want to loose good number of users, that's a good way to go.
Unfortunately, you've replied only to me, not to the GNOME i18n list …
I really want to say, that it is not a matter o meritrocracy, democracy or any other cy! If the coordinator is ignorant, then sorry!
Meaning what??? Ignorance is OK?
I would like then to the orca main dev to give translation to the competent translators who can do it, me being a such with Milo, as i am translating NVDA screenreader since year 2014. The experience counts here.
The Croatian translator who was translating orca is BLIND – what more experience do you expect?
NVDA screenreader team also wanted to include all symbol translations from orca, Samuel thibaulth knows all the discussion, cause he contributed to the NVDA project, and some symbols are reallz taken from the orca symbols repositorz. The problem is, that we couldn't include the croatian or any other translation because of the too long and verbose translation, and not so intuitive translation for some languages. That also applies to croatian. So, if you want to loose good number of users, that's a good way to go.
Forget NVDA, that is NOT the issue here! Here we are talking about you coordinator's responsibilities for the translations of GNOME modules according to GNOME's policy.
Milo
We had this same conversation in the past and gogo explained us his reasons. You can read it here:
Yes, I know that … it was no help at all … because none of my 26 translations was ever reviewed since july 2019! In one word: meritocracy. Unless you create a new translation team or current coordinator in missing for a long time, is your team's leader who can promote you to prrofreader, commiter or even coordinator.
I don't care much about meritocracy, mediocracy, autocracy, democracy or any other *-cy. My point is that the coordinator is not responding and is not supportive – missing for a long time is not the problem, because he keeps translating. If the policy of "Team Coordinator Responsibilities" https://wiki.gnome.org/TranslationProject/TeamCoordinatorResponsibilities isn't important, then just drop it! Until then, I do insist on the coordinator's compliance to the existing policy … > If your team coordinator wants to use Ubuntu's terminology for Orca it's his own decision: it might be wrong or not, but i18n cannot say which option is correct. If you don't agree with it yuo have two options: assume it won't change and follow that policy or leave the project. Sorry if it sounds too hard, but it's what I think (and what I would do in your situation).
Sorry, but translators translate for users. Blind users certainly have special needs. Ignoring such translations is simply ignorant/autocratic! Again, we only see one side of the problem. We'd like to hear gogo's version about this problem. I have not background about previous conversations between gogo and you.
Well, he promised he'l respond, but there is no answer until now …
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