Ubuntu Dutch translation team is closed. Solutions?

[Adi Roiban]

Hi,

Via the following question :
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/rosetta/+question/64194
I found out that the Ubuntu Dutch translation team is somehow closed and
is asking new translators to work upstream.

I don't know what to think but in my opinion Ubuntu translators team
should be opened for new translators working both upstream or
downstream. Many upstream projects accept new translations only for
development version, and for example it is hard to push upstream a GNOME
translations from Hardy. There are also a couple of packages only
available in Ubuntu.

In the thread, Bert Van de Poel  states that "all the (dutch team)
members think that translating on launchpad isn't useful and that I
should translate upstream (but that isn't always possible so)."

What do you say? Do you have any suggestions about how we could help
him?

Maybe Bert Van de Poel could have sent the translations upstream, and
maybe they are not Ubuntu specific, but I feel like we could find a
solution and encourage his contribution as a Ubuntu translator.

Cheers,
-- 
Adi Roiban