(Forwarding Cheng-Chia Tseng's reply to the list) -------- Missatge reenviat -------- De: Tseng, Cheng-Chia Per a: David Planella Assumpte: Re: Policy proposal: Translation team coordinator e-mail address Data: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 22:28:37 +0800
+1
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:20 PM, David Planella wrote:
Hi translators,
I've been meaning to ask you for your opinion on this for a
while.
Having just spent 10 minutes looking for the e-mail address of a
language team coordinator has actually prompted me to do it now.
So the question is:
* Should we request translation team leaders to have a
visible
e-mail address in Launchpad?
And the background is:
I believe translation team leaders should be people that are
easily
contactable, both by the Ubuntu Translations Coordinators team
and by
other translators, and having a hidden translation address in
Launchpad
does not make things easy. As a reminder: having a visible
e-mail
address in Launchpad makes it only visible to other people who
have
logged in with a valid account in Launchpad - so it's not just
visible
to anyone.
Now if it took me a non-trivial amount of time to find someone's
address
today, I could imagine that it would be even more difficult for
a new
translator not familiar with our workflow. One could argue that
he or
she could use the "Contact this user" link, but that has its
drawbacks:
you cannot have a record of the message sent, and it can be used
only 3
times a day to prevent spam, IIRC.
This is not something new: other translations systems (GNOME,
KDE,
Translation Project, etc.) request coordinators to have a known
and
stable e-mail address, and in some of them it's even a policy.
If the majority of you think it's a good idea, I'd propose to
make it a
policy. To most of the translation team leaders, it will not
make a
difference. To the few that have got a hidden e-mail address,
they would
simply have to tick a checkbox to make it visible.
Let me know what you think. +1/-1/comments/concerns...?
Regards,
David.
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by Cheng-Chia Tseng
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