[Qgis-community-team] languages for docs

[Werner Macho]

Hi Richard!
I already have a list of all current GUI-Translation Maintainers
And there is still the qgis-tr mailinglist with (fortunately) already a lot
of people willing to help in translation - so the communication channel is
already opened.
I also have a more or less standardized mail which I send back whenever I
get a request asking for help in providing translations.

I am still in favour of using the translation email-list for all kind of
translation issues - because probably sometimes a rising problem is also
interesting for all other translators too.

So my suggestion is to keep GUI, Documentation and all other Translators
together .. (qgis-tr list)
To my point of view we are getting more and more people wanting to help
(which is very good) but on the other side the infrastructure for them is
not in place right now.

So maybe we should just ask them to subscribe to the translators list and
make an announcement there once another milestone (possible to translate in
browser for example) is done and ready to be used.

Regarding the flags: I would not add all - (if its easily possible to
change that later) because people seeing their flag are expecting some
translations there and will be disappointed if that is not the case.
I would add just flags where translation really takes place (again - only
if its easily adjustable)

thanks for offering your help - I am sure we will manage it :)

regards
Werner


On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde <richard at duif.net>wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I get several emails of people willing to translate the documentation.
>
> I think we need a little formal procedure for this.
>
> I propose:
> - Werner (if he still want it to do :-) ) as uber-chef for translations (I
> can assist with things) and 'central point of ... contact' ;-)
> - for every language at this moment, make the current desktop maintainer
> also the documentation translation maintainer (then he/she can split up the
> tasks internally, or let us know that he/she is not able to do this)
>
> This means for example that we (or at least Werner) have to have a list of
> email addresses for all maintainers so we can bring new translators into
> contact with a given language maintainer (maybe we can create emailadresses
> for this? Like nl at qgis.org being a redirect to the dutch language
> maintainer)
>
> Is this plan ok?
> @Werner I'm willing to help you with this.
>
> Related:
>
> Should I just add all languages that we have for the desktop as flags in
> the documentation structure? Or only of languages I think/know there are
> translators.?
> (one drawback of adding a lot of languages is that the scripts take a much
> longer time to run).
>
> I think it will be more translation-friendly to just add all flags :-)
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
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