I agree with Florian that this could be very beneficial for the Portuguese team. Even though there are differences (similar to en_US and en_GB), the Orthographical Agreement (AO-90) helps by making uniform a lot of words across Lusophone countries (Like Brazil and Portugal). So, with hard work to find the proper localization (l10n) and with cooperation of other natives from the team, I believe the differences might not be a problem and this can be a great boost for the Portuguese team.
FWIW, I can tell that Juliano has a great domain of (Brazilian) Portuguese language: He reported many small by important language details I missed in the Brazilian Portuguese translation of gnome-control-center/mutter/gnome-shell. I'd be happy to help on any technical difficulties he comes through. P.s.: The GNOME Brasil Telegram group has some Portugueses (from Portugal) some time now, and one just now asked on how to help with pt_PT translated (yay, one more contributor!) Cheers, Rafael Fontenelle On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 9:19 AM Florian H. <emailtoflor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear all, > I think a coordinator for PT-PT can be Brazilian because his job is mainly > coordinating the work of translators and getting the translations submitted > and merged. > I understand the role of the coordinator as a facilitator and as long as > communication between the coordinator and the team members is ensured (which > it is), this can be done. The difference between the two languages are minor > and case there are questionable strings, let the team discuss it with Juliano. > > Better have a PT-BR coordinator than a dead PT-PT team. > > +1 for Juliano! Keep up the good energy! > > Best, Florian > > > > > On Aug 18, 2020, at 14:05, Daniel Mustieles García via gnome-i18n > <gnome-i18n@gnome.org> wrote: > > > Mmmm... I'm not sure about this. If Portuguese is different from Brazilian > and you don't have a full knowledge about it I don't think it's a good idea > to coordinate that team. > > I don't know how deep are the differences between both languages, but maybe a > Portuguese people might get confused reading some Brazilian terms. > > Regards > > El mar., 18 ago. 2020 a las 13:24, Rafael Fontenelle (<rafae...@gnome.org>) > escribió: >> >> Hi, Juliano >> >> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 8:17 AM Juliano Camargo via gnome-i18n >> <gnome-i18n@gnome.org> wrote: >> >> > It depends on what you believe is "ready". Let make me clear, I am not a >> > Portuguese, I am Brazilian. I speak Portuguese but not as they do in >> > Portugal. Still, I am kind of learning how to speak like they do and I use >> > Linux as OS so "why not merge the two things?" I was asking myself. >> >> Have you considered joining Brazilian Portuguese translation team in >> https://l10n.gnome.org/teams/pt_BR/ ? >> >> Best regards, >> Rafael Fontenelle >> _______________________________________________ >> gnome-i18n mailing list >> gnome-i18n@gnome.org >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > gnome-i18n@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
