[wp-polyglots] Using Launchpad for translation

[Jeroen Vermeulen]

Hello,

I have a question for people who use launchpad.net to translate Wordpress.

The Wordpress site suggests Launchpad as one of several tools.  We here 
in the Launchpad Translations development team have had some problems 
with this—our process really wasn't designed for it.  We'd like to 
change that, so that Launchpad can be more useful to you.  But we need a 
volunteer!

The problem is this: Wordpress is registered as a project on Launchpad, 
and some people use it for translating Wordpress.  But nobody is in 
charge, and nobody knows which language teams use it.  So people try to 
help translate Wordpress to some language in Launchpad, and discover 
that nobody is using their work.  Other people register their own 
versions of the Wordpress project just to translate one version to one 
language, and nobody knows which is the "real" Wordpress.

Here's how we can solve it: we set up a translation group for Wordpress 
in Launchpad.  The group consists of one team per language, and only 
members of these teams get permission to edit the translations.  Each 
team can have its own owner and manage itself, but our volunteer would 
be in charge of the translation group as a whole.  That means talking to 
Wordpress translation teams that want to use Launchpad, and making them 
members of the translation group.

Who's willing to take on that role?  There'd be other things to do as 
well: registering each new major Wordpress release in Launchpad, and 
uploading the latest templates so people can translate them.  But the 
main thing is that somebody should be in charge of the Wordpress project 
on Launchpad.


Jeroen Vermeulen
Launchpad Translations team