Improving Rosetta's relation with upstream translation teams

[Matthew East]

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Hi Danilo,

* Danilo ?egan:
> We are asking you, the translation team leaders and administrators, to
> limit membership to only a couple of highly trusted translators, and
> ask everybody else in your translation team to submit suggestions
> instead (they won't be members of a team "on paper", but nothing will
> stop them from submitting suggestions).  

I can only speak for the Italian team here, because that's the team I'm
responsible for, but I have the feeling that the same will apply for
many other teams.

It's totally unrealistic to expect to find people with the time to go
around checking all suggestions for an entire distribution. The team
already works closely with upstream (at least in the case of Gnome) and
is extremely approachable if anyone from any other upstream identifies a
problem with a translation. We haven't had any complaints so far, and
the idea of throttling the productivity and working practises of the
team sounds to me like a serious overraction to a problem that is not there.

> This is a flaw in Rosetta, no doubt about that, but translation teams
> which admit anyone are hurting our relations with many upstream
> translators who have actually done most of the work in some
> languages.  It goes without saying that we are planning on fixing
> this, but we have some higher priority stuff right now.

That's a different story - teams which admit anyone definitely do a lot
of damage, but there are lots of teams which have found a middle ground
and have developed good quality control, and limiting those teams by
making a couple of people check all translations would be a serious
shame. In my view if you are really serious about that rule, it is worth
discussing with the Community Council before implementing it so that
translation teams who have developed good practises can make their case.

Matt
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