Re: [Tails-l10n] Choosing between Git and Transifex per-lang…

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Author: Matsa
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To: tails-l10n
Subject: Re: [Tails-l10n] Choosing between Git and Transifex per-language?
Le Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:02:01 +0100,
intrigeri <intrigeri@???> a écrit :

> hi,
>
> Matsa wrote (11 Mar 2013 17:53:06 GMT) :
> > The todo item said:
> >> On the Transifex side, we may add a message for the translators,
> >> pointing to contribute/how/translate and the Tails-l10n
> >> mailing-list.
>
> > Here is a short draft, please review and complete:
> > [...]
> > If no one oppose, correct or complete, I'll send it to the
> > maintainers on transifex at the end of the week.
>
> Perhaps someone should first check if it's possible to have such
> per-program messages on Transifex, to ensure this technical solution
> is viable at all.


Thanks for pointing that:

It doesn't seem to be possible to display a *per-program*, neither
per-language message.

> Perhaps that's just me, but it's totally unclear to me:
>
>   1. whether you've chosen proposal A, proposal C, or something else
>      for your team;
>   2. what problem exactly you're trying to solve, and what identified
>      problem will be left once your proposal is implemented.

>


It's indeed confused.
I clearly misunderstood the problem, sorry for the noise.

As we (the french team) want to keep on working with git, I've searched
for a way to avoid duplicate work, i.e. tell the french translators on
Transifex.

Until now, the only way I found to contact them directly is to use the
"Last-translator" emails listed in each .PO file headers.

> what identified problem will be left once your proposal is
> implemented.


A new french translator could start translating on Tx without being
warn that the same work is done here.

Transifex doesn't seem to offer a proper way to convey such a message:

In addition to the project's header message, there is

- an announcement system, but it seems to allow only project-wide
messages.

- and a "Language team" feature. this feature is not actually
available/activated: «The Tor Project does not maintain its own
translation teams».

The Transifex documentation doesn't say that much about those features,
and, as a non-administrator user, I can't discern if they offer a proper
answer.