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Maybe teamleaders should have an email address @ubuntu-lang.org, so
they do not have to use their private address.<br>
Hannie<br>
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Subject: Policy proposal: Translation team coordinator e-mail
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font-size: 12px;" lang="x-western">Hi translators,
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I've been meaning to ask you for your opinion on this for a
while.
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Having just spent 10 minutes looking for the e-mail address of a
<br>
language team coordinator has actually prompted me to do it now.
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So the question is:
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* Should we request translation team leaders to have a
visible
<br>
e-mail address in Launchpad?
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And the background is:
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I believe translation team leaders should be people that are
easily
<br>
contactable, both by the Ubuntu Translations Coordinators team
and by
<br>
other translators, and having a hidden translation address in
Launchpad
<br>
does not make things easy. As a reminder: having a visible
e-mail
<br>
address in Launchpad makes it only visible to other people who
have
<br>
logged in with a valid account in Launchpad - so it's not just
visible
<br>
to anyone.
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Now if it took me a non-trivial amount of time to find someone's
address
<br>
today, I could imagine that it would be even more difficult for
a new
<br>
translator not familiar with our workflow. One could argue that
he or
<br>
she could use the "Contact this user" link, but that has its
drawbacks:
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you cannot have a record of the message sent, and it can be used
only 3
<br>
times a day to prevent spam, IIRC.
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This is not something new: other translations systems (GNOME,
KDE,
<br>
Translation Project, etc.) request coordinators to have a known
and
<br>
stable e-mail address, and in some of them it's even a policy.
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If the majority of you think it's a good idea, I'd propose to
make it a
<br>
policy. To most of the translation team leaders, it will not
make a
<br>
difference. To the few that have got a hidden e-mail address,
they would
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simply have to tick a checkbox to make it visible.
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Let me know what you think. +1/-1/comments/concerns...?
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Regards,
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David.
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