[RFC] Bazaar Localisation Team

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

John Arbash Meinel writes:

 > Do you really want another separate team? It seems a bit fragmented to
 > me to have 20 different teams that don't really say much. Threads can't
 > cross between them well, etc.

I do not want to express an opinion on the number of teams, but the
L10N team is a special case.  I lurk on the Debian-I18N list a bit,
and there are two kinds of people on it.  The majority of posts are by
translators, few of whom know any more about coding than "improper use
of quotation marks breaks the product".  The rest are by the
maintainer and a few infrastructure developers, mostly administrivia
about NMU updates of packages to include new translations, and a bit
of polling of the translators about satisfaction with tools and what
new features etc are desirable.  Many of them don't even care about
any given package; instead, they tend to contribute translations for
many packages.

I think an -l10n list is therefore a good idea; the people who will be
subscribed and posting there are a very different lot from the main
list.

OTOH, it might be better to use a general Ubuntu- or Canonical-wide
for this purpose, precisely because translators and I18N people tend
*not* to affiliate with "projects", but rather with their languages
(many are polyglots).

 > I just feel that we went from 1 probably too-full list, to having it
 > split with merge-proposals, and now you've introduced 5 or so mini-lists
 > that I don't think many people even realize they exist. Maybe I'm wrong,
 > are the subscription rates high?

Subscription rates are not very interesting, except for announce
lists.  Posting rates and posting distribution (a long tail in the
"interval between posts" distribution is a very good sign) are much
more interesting.