Hi, I have no idea how this weblate users got the indirect approval for the write access to the many translation project. I see both benefits and risks.
This certainly expands the scope of contributor but at the same time introduces noise and contribution from the unreachable person. When there is conflict or sloppy work, its hard to correct it. Let me comment a bit more. On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 10:08:45PM +0100, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > Hi > > El 15/02/17 a las 21:23, Helge Kreutzmann escribió: > > Hello Holger, > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 07:46:15PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > >> I totally support this request. > > > > I totally agree to you both as well, especially Beatrice, given > > that I do the same for those translations where I'm listed as > > last translator. Problem here is the contributor via weblate may not get exposed to all the comments reminding new contributors how to contribute. Also, most of the existing translators does not know how the weblate works. So we do not know how to inform weblate users. > >> I am unsure, when this Weblate thing has entered Debian ... ? > >> > >> How does this work? > >> > >> Did I miss an announcement about this on debian-i18n or something like > >> that? > > > > This is the first time I'm informed about weblate, so I would like to > > get some more information as well, especially how to configure > > (disable) it for those translations where I'm responsible for. > > > > I guess this is a decision about how to handle translations just for > the package debian-reference in particular. I did not set up but noticed this via broken po entries etc. > I know that other Debian packages are handled using weblate too, at > least for several languages. The debian-handbook comes to mind. > > I am a weblate user (translator) in hosted.weblate.org for other > project (F-Droid) and when I login, I can lock a translation so it > only allows me work on it. Maybe that's a workaround for all the > languages that have a translation-maintainer that does not work with > Weblate. > > Weblate also allows to members of a project to receive notifications > about many different events that happen (updated strings, updated > translations, new people joining the project, etc). Maybe that helps, too. Problem is none of the existing translator knows how we should deal with. But I see chinese iand spanish translations of Debian reference seems to get some improvements. https://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=ddp/debian-reference.git > CC'ing Osamu Aouki, the maintainer of debian-reference package, > (probably knowing how is the current workflow or having better ideas > than me). I want to know too ;-) > Maybe a mention of the proposed workflow for translator should be made > in the README file, too. I suggest to use > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-handbook/debian-handbook.git/tree/README.translators > as reference, since that project also uses weblate for some languages, > and the usual git commits for others. Does weblate user read this? Osamu
