(this message was also send to the language coordinators' private mail) I read in the xfce irc channel there is a bit of confusion (hi Christoph) about the new translation teams, so let me explain that a bit:
In the old installation I manual disabled the subscribe/create/edit translation team functionality. This because there was no way to 'copy' teams and thus one had to subscribe to each of the projects and all these requests had to be accepted. Something that is not going to work with > 100 projects. So the online subscription was disabled and the server ran a set of sql queries [1] to move users into translation teams of each project based on their 'native language' and group permissions (ie. the "you've been added to the translators group" slang). Because the server executed this every 15 minutes, it was not possible for us to use the coordinator functionality in teams: accept new members by coordinators (Mike and I had to do all this), join > 1 group with 1 username etc. Meanwhile the transifex people were working on a system to 'outsource' translation teams, ie: I trust this other project on the transifex installation and I want to use its translation teams. This functionality landed in the development branch of transifex a couple of days ago and... now we're using it in Xfce. This means the sql query is stopped (yeey), dropped 17646 lines from the database (teams, coordinators and members) and made each project in our installation 'outsource' the teams of the 'xfce' product. With this the translation teams are handled in a central place and we can use the team managing functionality of transifex again, meaning less work for Mike and me and more freedom for translators. So not *all* translation teams are removed: all - the ones in the xfce product. Another complaint is that the teams are somewhat hard to find (ie. not under the language). This is not strange, because keep in mind transifex is designed for transifex.net where they have hundreds of translation teams, not just 1 like in our installation. To make it somewhat easier I added a link "Translation Teams' to the header that points to the teams in the xfce-product. I already explained teams handle permissions for a language yesterday (if your not in a team you can't do anything), so that should be clear. If you have anything to ask, feel free to do so. Nick [1] http://pastebin.com/shgCj9Nf _______________________________________________ Xfce-i18n mailing list Xfce-i18n@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce-i18n
