On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
Or, as Daniel replied to me offlist, it would also be great if someone volunteered just for this specific task of soliciting translations from existing translators when 1.9.0-rc1 is announced (and perhaps retro-actively poll people for 1.8). This person doesn't necessarily need to take on more responsibilities. -- Johan
