Re: Add BillReminder to DL

[Sean Burke <leftmostcat gmail com>]

Hello Og,
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Thank you for chimming in about this topic. I also have a great deal
> of respect for all the quality assurance that we, GNOME translators,
> have so hard fought to establish. I can assure you that when I set up
> my app to be translated via Rosetta, I made sure that only official
> team members of the Ubuntu translators team could perfom it. As you
> can see from the Swedish translation (for BillReminder) page:
>   
  Please don't rely on this as a measure of quality assurance. Some 
downstream translation teams will accept anyone and everyone who asks. 
When I sought to join the team for my language, I never once spoke with 
the coordinator or demonstrated any sort of suitability for the job. 
Requests to join are rubber-stamped and as a result the Ubuntu 
translation of GNOME for my language is significantly worse than 
upstream. This is a standing problem and one with no easy solution. 
Importing translations from Launchpad could potentially do great harm to 
the work of upstream translators with no recourse save to constantly 
revert. Please don't do it.


Sean Burke