On 10/28/2014 01:28 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > On 27/10/14 21:33, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >>> Well I think we added all languages on Pootle where we see activities or >>> interest in working on the translation. Why should we add languages >>> where nobody is working on? I don't get it. >> >> That was an example, but still it is one improvement that needs to be >> done. Why? Because volunteers are much more likely to be involved if >> they can have an idea of what they would be working on, and because we >> can't keep volunteers waiting too much. >> >> Concrete example: http://markmail.org/message/usn5khq3imrdibzq Sinhala >> (si) was requested two weeks ago and >> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trunk/extras/l10n/source/si/ >> hasn't been imported yet. > > The natural way would have been to submit an issue task to integrate it. > I am currently don't follow the l10n list in detail and easy miss such > requests that are on the mailing list only. > > Documenting the current process is still a to-do on my long list and > it's too bad that we won't make progress with the genlang project. I > believe it is dead and nobody really knows enough details to continue > (probably). > > Anyway if somebody feels motivated to work on translation relevant task > on Pootle just ask. Don't wait on me until I have documented everything. > Asking directly is much more efficient. > > Juergen
OK. I have some questions. How often are uploads to Pootle done? How are they done? It seems people designated as Pootle admins can do this and that's it. The reason I ask is we've had changes to helpcontent and these were not in the content I saw on Pootle. I can't find a "time stamp" for recent uploads, etc. > > > Probably you are now the only person who has >> the skills and the permissions on the relevant systems to help with >> this. If you take care of documenting the process in the wiki in >> https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Pootle_User_Guide (or a sibling page) >> this time, we may be able to delegate it the next time the need arises, >> and then maybe find someone who will progressively import the SDF files >> to Pootle: keeping only the SDF is really bad since one can't see >> progress or submit a quick fix, and if everything is on Pootle we lower >> the entry barrier. >> >> Regards, >> Andrea. >> -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive." -- Andy Grove, Intel Co-founder --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
