2013/9/18 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>: > >>> The one area where I'd consider a web interface a possibly good >>> tradeoff of matching tools to skills would be translation work: that >>> could/should be a lot more crowdsourced than it is now. It turns out >>> that organizing and tracking incremental translation work requires >>> being able to work with various scripts and stuff: the translation >>> workflow does not benefit from web-based tools at all. As a >>> consequence, we have at most one translator per language. >> >> That's what I said. > > No, it isn't. I said "the _one_ area" while you are trying to sell > web-based interfaces as a panacea. For by far _most_ of the involved > work areas, web-based interfaces scare more potentially serious > contributors away than otherwise.
Just a reminder: nobody's talking about replacing everything with web-based interfaces. I think that the discussion is about providing both web-based and other interfaces. And i know at least one potential serious contributor that is driven away by complicated interfaces. And he seemed to quite like GitHub workflow after trying it. Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
