Hi! Thanks for sharing your experience!
El dl 01 de 11 de 2010 a les 10:25 +1300, en/na jbow...@amathaine.com va escriure: > Speaking as a small team coordinator struggling to recruit people and > get them active, I have to agree this is a big issue - I don't know > how we'll ever make it to 20%, much less 80%. The problem is that most > people take one look at a file filled with error messages and schema > strings and I never hear from them again. I *only* get contributions > when I can tell them *exactly* which strings in the file correspond to > buttons/menus/labels. Guess what? I can't do that on my own for most > modules, which is why over the last few years our stats have actually > dropped from nearly 5% to <1%. In fact, I don't think I've landed a > single contribution since the switch to Git (though there have a been > a few drive-by translations via Ubuntu). GNOME sysadmins are working on providing the stuff needed on their side so that Damned-Lies can send translations from the web interface, so you will only need to download the files, translate them, upload to Damned-Lies and then just press a button to submit it, which hopefully will allow you to focus more on translating and forget for your own health from git ;) > I don't know how many of the other languages languishing at the bottom > of the list are facing the same issue, but I'll bet it's a fair > number. I can swear to you that if I could get a fair number of the UI > elements translated (say, 20% by D-L stats), we would see a big surge > in contributions and maybe even sponsorship from the Language > Commission. > > I mean, gtk+ is my favorite example here; the first string is "Error > parsing option --gdk-debug", while the stock labels (which is frankly > all I care about given our general lack of coverage) are down > somewhere around 450 strings in. 99% of my users are never going to > see any of the command-line stuff in the gtk+ module, but 100% of them > are going to encounter the stock labels. Why should I *have* to > explain all this stuff to every potential recruit? It's hard enough > just finding people who are willing to contribute in the first place; > then the first thing they see is the sea of technical messages and > their motivation just evaporates. > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > gnome-i18n@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n -- gil forcada [ca] guifi.net - una xarxa lliure que no para de créixer [en] guifi.net - a non-stopping free network bloc: http://gil.badall.net planet: http://planet.guifi.net _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
