Op Sa, 2011-09-10 om 15:34 +0200 skryf F Wolff: > Op Sa, 2011-09-03 om 22:33 +0200 skryf Andre Klapper: > > Hi, > > > > Yesterday I tried to contact ~17 GNOME translation team leaders of teams > > that look like losing translation coverage[1]. > > > > (In general I think that the GNOME translation community should be more > > active in identifying potential problems and help with outreach to > > downstream translation teams[2][3][4]. > > I'm interested in thoughts of others on this.) > > > > As a first result to mention here, I received a 550 delivery failure for > > the email address of the Dzongkha team[5] leader (CC'ed). > > > > How to proceed? Make it a "There is currently no established team for > > this language." on l10n.gnome.org for the time being? > > Contact downstream teams whether they somebody is interested in helping > > upstream? > > Thanks for taking initiative with this, André. > > It is really sad to see how some languages that were in excellent shape > go backwards in just a few years. While a more accurate message on > Damned Lies is good, the first prise would be to find a way to get > inactive teams to become active again. > > A few observations: > > - Languages that lost just a few percentage points but wasn't that high > (10%-20%) probably had the same amount of inactivity. > > - There is massive string churn: without activity, it seems that a > language can loose more than 10% of their coverage in a year if they > were reasonably complete before the inactivity. > > - On the other end of the scale, some languages have progressed > remarkably well over the last few years. > > - It is sad that teams loose coverage, but hopefully we are improving > in more teams than we are regressing. Let's have a look at this page > with people that wanted to help: > https://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/TeamBrainstorm > > Did we help these people in starting? I just stumbled on the page > yesterday, and got into contact with Ernest, who sent his email to the > list a few hours later. Let's see if we can pick up more teams.
Another thing I forgot to mention, is the case of Thai slipping 17%. You might remember that the coordinator Theppitak Karoonboonyanan explained why they were failing to attract people to GNOME: the logo. The reactions were mixed, and I don't know if we managed to solve the problem for the Thai team. Friedel -- Recently on my blog: http://translate.org.za/blogs/friedel/en/content/virtaal-070-released _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
