gettext: Organization
12.4 Organization
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* NOTE: * This documentation section is outdated and needs to be
revised.
On a larger scale, the true solution would be to organize some kind
of fairly precise set up in which volunteers could participate. I gave
some thought to this idea lately, and realize there will be some touchy
points. I thought of writing to Richard Stallman to launch such a
project, but feel it might be good to shake out the ideas between
ourselves first. Most probably that Linux International has some
experience in the field already, or would like to orchestrate the
volunteer work, maybe. Food for thought, in any case!
I guess we have to setup something early, somehow, that will help
many possible contributors of the same language to interlock and avoid
work duplication, and further be put in contact for solving together
problems particular to their tongue (in most languages, there are many
difficulties peculiar to translating technical English). My Swedish
contributor acknowledged these difficulties, and I’m well aware of them
for French.
This is surely not a technical issue, but we should manage so the
effort of locale contributors be maximally useful, despite the national
team layer interface between contributors and maintainers.
The Translation Project needs some setup for coordinating language
coordinators. Localizing evolving programs will surely become a
permanent and continuous activity in the free software community, once
well started. The setup should be minimally completed and tested before
GNU ‘gettext’ becomes an official reality. The e-mail address
‘coordinator@translationproject.org’ has been set up for receiving
offers from volunteers and general e-mail on these topics. This address
reaches the Translation Project coordinator.
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