IRC Meeting 2012-10-06 21:00h UTC+2

[Gil Forcada <gforcada gnome org>]

Hi all,

Yesterday we had a great meeting over IRC, around 3 hours long!

Check the lengthy IRC log:
https://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/Events/IRCMeeting20121006

A summary of it (please add comments and corrections!):
- GNOME 3.6 looked good (translation wise) some concerns were:
-- hard to test due to distributions not being updated enough
-- we hope that GNOME testing initiative (aka GNOME OS) improves by next
release :)
-- some QA guidelines were thought as needed to do translation testing

- new design of http://l10n.gnome.org
-- the RTL situation is not really good but Arab translators will
provide screenshots on how to fix it (help needed thought)

- switching D-L to only show words
-- strong arguments on both sides, more discussion, mockups or subteams
working on proposals would help changing things (if there's a need for
it at all)

- next IRC meeting
-- Gabor volunteers to run it one for next month, we will get news from
him soon hopefully :)

- accelerators on app menus (the thing on the GNOME Shell bar)
-- translators feel uncomfortable with the situation, lots of modules
with accelerators, lots of other modules without
-- will try to get attention from designers and developers to have clear
guidelines (if possible)

- doing another survey for coordinators
-- still not clear what we want to ask to ourselves (a bit philosophical
this one :D)
-- some mail will be sent to this list asking about ideas

- dropping docbook (documentation) translations
-- Gabor volunteered to ask documentation team about their plans

- splitting the big GNOME module set
-- everyone agrees that we have to move it forward, lots of technical
details and design decisions to be made though
-- where to put the line on splitting modules
-- what to use as the mighty 80%

- dead modules
-- that's a big concern we all have, how to make sure translators don't
waste time translating modules that are not maintained or used
-- idea of making D-L send mails to warn maintainers and translators
about a module not being updated/released during a GNOME cycle (6
months)
-- some git sorcery is needed to make D-L work, volunteers welcomed :)
-- Piotr made a new list of dead modules:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685632
-- discussed some way to make translators aware of it on D-L itself
(showing some sort of banner or warning)

That's roughly it, but please, if you have time, read the minutes, they
are quite valuable :)

Happy translating!
-- 
Gil Forcada

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