Yet another point of view.
Sounds reasonable, 'affordable', maintainable.
A 'localized' mailing list was a wish of mine too, when I had to keep
in touch with other translators in my language. Not to mention that the
difficulties of using a foreign language on different levels or using it
at all vanishes in a moment. Every sublist member understands 'natively'
what the other is talking about.
On 2015-01-24 10:39, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
Aivaras Stepukonis wrote:
2015.01.24 00:26, Louis Suárez-Potts rašė:
I'm curious. Do you think it would be worthwhile to bing back a
version of the old native-language sub-projects?
Not in a more structured form than mailing lists. Localized mailing
lists are already a good step forward. My idea is that whenever we
have a group of volunteers we should give them a way to coordinate
which is internal to Apache (so, three volunteers for Croatian
localization means that we should setup a mailing list for them; and
that becomes the main point of contact). Some languages have more than
one mailing list (one for project coordination and one for users, for
example).
I agree. Another reason why the page should be optional is that some
native-lang projects are literally one-person endeavors. That person may
not want to make public his contacts. If the page were mandatory it
would have to be empty.
I'm trying to get to the "What problem does this solve?" angle. If
this is a page meant to be useful for the general international
public, I think the best structure could be something like (for the
language XX; something will apply to some languages only):
---
- For support in XX, use the [XX Forum] or the [XX users list]
([...explanation on how to subscribe/unsubscribe... link to archives...])
- To report XX translation issues, use the [Localization mailing list]
or the [XX mailing list]
- To report a problem with the XX dictionary, contact
You can also contact the following volunteers directly:
Name | Area of Practice | Location | Contact
[...this is a variant of
http://www.openoffice.org/lt/participate/contributors...]
Get involved
- To join the XX translation team, write to ...
---
This could be a generic "XX" page that can scale according to how much
we have to offer for the specific language. So in this case the
volunteers who translate the site adapt everything to their specific
situation.
Regards,
Andrea.
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