[Live-demo] Should we create an OSGeo-Live translators email list?

Vicky Vergara vicky at georepublic.de
Mon Oct 23 20:59:16 PDT 2017


Hi, Messages to translators can be done using transifex, they just need to
be registered as translators.
That would generate less traffic to normal mail.

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 9:55 PM, Ko Nagase <nagase at georepublic.co.jp> wrote:

> Hi Cameron, list,
>
> +0
>
> I can't expect how much traffic will the new translation mailing list have.
> So, I think that starting from putting [TR] in the subject (as Richard
> Wrote) is better
> until the each translators get used to the new Transifex way.
>
> I agree with creating the new translation mailing list
> when its traffic becomes too much and the questions become varied in
> each language.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> 2017-10-21 3:33 GMT+09:00 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>:
> > <this email is being sent directly to the OSGeo-Live translators that I'm
> > aware of, and separately being emailed to the live-demo at lists.osgeo.org
> > email list. Please reply only to live-demo at lists.osgeo.org>
> >
> > OSGeo-Live translators,
> >
> > Over a number of months Vicky and Nicholas have been setting up a
> Transifex
> > for OSGeo-Live which looks like it is going to be hugely valuable for the
> > OSGeo-Live translation effort. They are now reaching the point where they
> > are ready to start talking about it with OSGeo-Live translators and we
> would
> > really like to hear the opinions of OSGeo-Live translators.
> >
> > If you are not subscribed to our list, it would be great if you could
> > subscribe, and then check emails on this list at least for the next few
> > weeks:
> >
> > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo
> >
> > The first question we are asking is whether a separate OSGeo-Live
> > translation email list should be set up. What do you think? We've had the
> > following comments so far:
> >
> >
> > On 20/10/17 5:34 pm, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> >
> > On 20-10-17 07:47, Kari Salovaara wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > personally I don't see necessary to create yet-another mailing list.
> > Reasons are simple, this list is not busy, there is very limited number
> > of messages. It's very good, even mandatory, for translator to know
> > what's happening in application. Also it's good for developers to know
> > what are the issues and topics in translation process.
> >
> > Well, as an outsider, I second this...
> >
> > At QGIS we have/had several mailing lists and some of them are just too
> > quiet (our tr list is almost void, people prefer the 'community list').
> > Same with the GUI/UI list we had, often you needed the input from devs
> > too... So we stopped it.
> >
> > Note that often the translation questions are either incrowd (what do we
> > use as germans for this word), or technical (why do I have to give two
> > translations for this (singular/multiple).
> >
> > Better to maybe use a [TR]-subject-convention in the dev list: put [TR]
> > in the subject when it is translating related....
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
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>
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> Ko Nagase (長瀬 興)
> Georepublic Japan
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