Rob Weir wrote:
Are we expecting any change to Pootle in the near term? If so, what and when?
The changes look trivial but are not so trivial since Pootle accounts are now linked to committer accounts. Currently anonymous users can suggest translations, and users cannot register (they have to be committers).
We need, for many good reasons (traceability, accountability...) that anonymous suggestions are disabled and, at the same time, account creation for non-committers is possible.
I was concerned about losing content but apparently Jan reassured here and on the l10n list that we are in a position to use/import strings from Pootle at this stage. So it is a configuration/policy issue only.
I would not recommend waiting too long. We've shown that offline translation is quite reasonable.. Most of the 3.4.1 languages were done that way.
It worked, but the current process is really demanding on the motivation (or technical skills) of volunteers. Compare an answer like "Welcome! Next week we will send you a link to a .tar.bz2 archive containing 240 PO files that you should open individually, translate and send us back" to "Welcome! Please register at https://translate.apache.org/ and start translating now".
Then, if you ask me, I would probably prefer the 240 PO files, but the majority of new volunteers will be perfectly at home with Pootle. So I believe we should fix it before any other mass-recruitment actions.
Regards, Andrea.
