Re: Mailing list for translations

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 22/06/2021 à 17:32, Federico Bruni a écrit :
> Il giorno mar 22 giu 2021 alle 10:45:17 +0200, Jean Abou Samra 
> <jean@abou-samra.fr> ha scritto:
> > Moreover, as Valentin, the administrator of lilynet.net,
> > is (currently) inactive as a developer, I think we should
> > strive to move discussions to mailing lists hosted by
> > gnu.org, which is proven to have long-term reliability
> > without requiring maintenance on our side. What should
> > we pick, lilypond-devel or a new mailing list? I lean
> > towards moving everything on lilypond-devel, because we
> > already have many communication channels compared to the
> > size of the development community (lilypond-devel,
> > bug-lilypond, issues, merge requests). Questions about
> > the workflow are also important for developers, and
> > build issues affect everyone of course. Individual
> > translators can always be CCed in a particular thread
> > if needed.
>
> I agree with you.
> The traffic on translations@ has been very very low for some years.
> In the last years it was used mainly by the catalan translator to 
> share patch files to be verified and applied. Now this moved to Gitlab 
> MR...
>
> OTOH a translator might not be interested to be subscribed to 
> lilypond-devel.
> But as you say translators can be CCed when needed.

Yes. And on GitLab, if this turned out to be a significant
problem, we could also add a "Translation" label, and
let translators use the "Subscribe to label" feature.

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2016/04/13/feature-highlight-subscribe-to-label/

> How many active translators we have currently?
> I'm quite inactive :-)

Jean-Charles is active. We also have a newbie:

https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/668

Advertising translation tasks might be a good idea,
because I haven't seen a translation patch for any
other language in the past months.

Cheers,
Jean