+1 Cheers, ------------------------------------------------- André Gondim E-mail: andregon...@ubuntu.com Blog: http://andregondim.eti.br OpenPGP keys: C9721403 -------------------------------------------------
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 16:41, Ask Hjorth Larsen <asklar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:20 PM, David Planella > <david.plane...@ubuntu.com> 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. > > +1. > > (Come to think of it, it would be nice if 'contact this user' also > sent a receipt back to yourself, but that's another discussion.) > > -- > ubuntu-translators mailing list > ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators > -- ubuntu-translators mailing list ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators
