On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Daniel Shahaf <danie...@elego.de> wrote: > Mattias Engdegård wrote on Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 19:40:00 +0200: >> 8 aug 2013 kl. 08.21 skrev Daniel Shahaf: >> >>> Mattias Engdegård wrote on Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 23:43:36 +0200: >>>> Sorry about the late reply; I rarely have time to read the >>>> development >>>> list. It seems unlikely that many translators do - how are they >>>> notified >>>> about the need to update their translations? It is common to have >>>> this as >>>> an explicit step in the release process; perhaps I have missed the >>>> broadcasts so far. >>>> >>> >>> We don't have such a step. I don't know if such announcements have >>> been >>> sent, but .de translator Jens Seidel also expressed interest in having >>> such --- so perhaps we [c|sh]ould do that in the future. >> >> Please consider that a strong suggestion then. After all, there can be >> no surprise at the lack of translations if nobody thought of telling the >> translators. >> >> The usual way is to alert the translators when a release is about to be >> made, but leaving them some time to actually do the work -- maybe a week >> or two. It could be a good idea to notify them each time a new release >> branch is forked off as well, since a lot of strings may have changed >> from the previous release and that will give a little more time for >> preparation. > > Should we retroactively send a round of "Hey, 1.8.x has been released, > please update translations on trunk and 1.8.x" ? > > Can you update docs/community/releasing.part.html or roadmap.html with > a reminder to consider sending a Call For Translations to translators?
Just following this discussion from a distance, but: do we have a "translation manager" [1]? Seems like this "alert the translators" task (and keeping tabs on whoever are the current active translators to keep in the loop) is a pretty good fit for such a person. If we don't have an active translation manager at this time, perhaps someone would like to volunteer? [1] http://producingoss.com/en/share-management.html#translation-manager -- Johan
