Re: Request for comments: damned-lies feature to display release dates of extra packages

[Gabor Kelemen <kelemeng gnome hu>]

2012-10-29 17:03 keltezéssel, Daniel Mustieles García írta:
> I don't know why, my email has been sent twice... sorry!
>
> Havin them listed in a webpage sound more tricky, because somebody
> should maintain it (removing already released modules), and translators
> can forget to check it. Sending an email to the coordinator and/or the
> team's mail list (and also ton i18n list) would be better
Damned-lies obviously needs to deal with this in a clever way, but the 
basic idea is that we should see this information in a new column on 
http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/LL/gnome-extras/ui/

Once we have the data, our coder hero* implementing this feature can do 
anything with it: display on the website, put into an RSS feed or a 
daily mail, or all of these. But let's not dive deep into painting the 
bikeshed yet, please. I'd like to hear if developers - those who are 
occasionally mailing us reminders and especially those who do not - like 
the idea. Let's stay with this and only this topic :).

*: unknown as of now, to be honest. Maybe a GSoC student next year... so 
this idea is a really long shot.

Regards
Gabor Kelemen

> 2012/10/29 Daniel Mustieles García <daniel mustieles gmail com
> <mailto:daniel mustieles gmail com>>
>
>     This is a great idea, but I have a question about this new feature:
>     assuming that it finally gets implemented, and maintainers use it,
>     how would translators be noticed about the release date of the
>     module? It would be great if DL could send an email to the team's
>     mailing list or to the coordinator. Just showing the planed release
>     date of the module would be useless.
>
>     Cheers!
>
>
>     2012/10/29 Gabor Kelemen <kelemeng gnome hu <mailto:kelemeng gnome hu>>
>
>         Hi developers
>
>         I'd like to request opinions on this bug[1]. This is about
>         developing a feature in damned-lies to make it easier for
>         maintainers of extra modules to communicate upcoming release
>         dates to translators. Currently translators have hard time to
>         decide which extra modules to translate, as information on their
>         next scheduled release date is scarce. I'd like to change this
>         situation by making it quicker and easier to communicate this
>         information.
>
>         The base idea from maintainer point of view is this:
>
>         We could extend the .doap files in repositories with a new
>         element, so that you could communicate the scheduled release
>         date of your project by committing a single line to your project
>         tree. After that damned-lies would take over presenting the
>         information towards translators.
>
>         If you maintain modules outside of the core set, I'd like to
>         hear your opinion under the bug: would you use this method,
>         would it make it easier for you to notify translators compared
>         to emailing gnome-i18n? Is this a technical issue at all, or a
>         "people's mentality" problem?
>
>         This is only an idea yet, but without developers
>         approval/interest it makes no sense to implement it, that's why
>         I'm asking opinions now.
>
>         [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/__show_bug.cgi?id=687114
>         <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687114>
>
>         Regards
>         Gabor Kelemen
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