Re: Online translation platform adoption?

[Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org>]

Hi,

This conversation (and the other one) is quite high high traffic which
explains the lack of an earlier response from me and other i18n
coordinators. That and the lack of motivation to argue one more time
about this topic when, as someone mentioned already, this was already
discussed (which also makes the “lack of love” comment difficult to
accept).

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 5:09 PM Baurzhan Muftakhidinov via gnome-i18n
<gnome-i18n gnome org> wrote:
> IMHO the Weblate's translation workflow is simpler than DL's.
> While DL operates on PO file level, Weblate operates on individual messages,
> which effectively makes several stages from DL workflow unnecessary.

This is the heart of the problem. What you describe as unnecessary is
the strength of the platform and what we are fighting to keep. That
“simpler workflow” leads to a significant decrease in quality and a
significant increase in coordinator workload. Our defense of our
current high standards is us actually showing our love of GNOME
translations.

Before you make any comment about the lack of love, or how you’re +1
for tool X because it makes you save a few minutes here and there and
might make you gain a few strings from random contributors, please
think this through and maybe try to understand the position of those
in charge.

I’ll have to interject as well regarding “plans” and asking stuff from
the sysadmins. While Emmanuele is correct in a general sense, we still
have a team of coordinators and not moving to another platform should
not be mistaken for a lack of plan or decision: it is a conscious
decision. If someone wants to improve things, a proposal is welcome.
Moving to X (which seems to be Weblate these days) is not a plan, it
is a request and we disagree with it.

-- 
Alexandre Franke
GNOME i18n coordinator