Re: [bn-IN] Reincarnate Bengali (India) Translation Team

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj ubuntu com>]

On 2020-07-28 07:54, Akarshan Biswas via gnome-i18n wrote:
> I want to bring to your notice that the current translation team of
> Bengali (India) is not active and hence not responding to any of the
> submissions/messages. Because of that there are lot of fuzzy,
> wrongly translated strings which awaits to be corrected from the last
> 4 years. I have tried opening a bug report
> (https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Translation/bn_IN/-/issues/1) 10
> months ago but did not receive any response whatsoever.

This request makes me wonder about the organization of the 
Bangla/Bengali translation of Linux. I see three "languages" at 
<https://l10n.gnome.org/languages/>: bn, bn_BD and bn_IN.

Most languages which are spoken in multiple countries have one common 
translation team. Does Bangla/Bengali have such distinct dialects in 
Bangladesh respective India which motivate separate translation teams? 
Or would there be room for 'merging' the teams?

A user with a bn_BD locale won't benefit from bn_IN translations and 
vice versa. So besides using the translator resources more efficiently, 
merging the teams into a 'bn' team would be good also from a user 
experience POV.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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