On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 09:20 +0100, Hannie wrote: > Maybe teamleaders should have an email address @ubuntu-lang.org, so > they do not have to use their private address. > Hannie
This can not be done, since there are no @ubuntu-LANG.org domains, only ubuntu-CC.org. Domain names are country based... not language based. Even if the country code could match the language code... not all languages /countries have configured the ubuntu-CC.org domain. Cheers, Adi > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Planella" > > <david.plane...@ubuntu.com> > > To: "Ubuntu Translators" <ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 3:20 PM > > Subject: Policy proposal: Translation team coordinator e-mail > > address > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > 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. > > > > -- > > David Planella > > Ubuntu Translations Coordinator > > www.ubuntu.com / www.davidplanella.wordpress.com > > www.identi.ca/dplanella / www.twitter.com/dplanella > > > > > > -- > > > > > -- Adi Roiban -- ubuntu-translators mailing list ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators