[Debian-l10n-devel] Contacting i18n/l10n team

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

I'd like to officially contact all our teams to learn about potential
issues that might affect your work.  I would love to learn how you
organise / share your workload.  If you do some regular meetings - be it
on IRC, video conference or whatever I'm interested in joining one of
your next meetings.

Like previous DPLs, I'm open to any inquiries or requests for
assistance. I personally prefer public discussion whenever possible, as
they can benefit a wider audience. You can find a list of contact
options at the bottom of my page on people.d.o[1].

I prefer being offline when I'm away from my keyboard, so I don't carry
a phone. In urgent situations, I can provide the number of my dumb
phone, though it may not always be within reach. Feel free to ping me
via email if I don't respond promptly to ensure I address your concerns.

Please let me know whether I can do something for you.  I'm fine joining
your IRC channel if needed but please invite me in case I should be
informed about some urgent discussion there since I normally do not lurk
on this channel.

I'd also like to inform you that I've registered a BoF for DebConf24 in
Busan with the following description:

  This BoF is an attempt to gather as much as possible teams inside
  Debian to exchange experiences, discuss workflows inside teams, share
  their ways to attract newcomers etc.

  Each participant team should prepare a short description of their work
  and what team roles (“openings”) they have for new contributors. Even
  for delegated teams (membership is less fluid), it would be good to
  present the team, explain what it takes to be a team member, and what
  steps people usually go to end up being invited to participate. Some
  other teams can easily absorb contributions from salsa MRs, and at some
  point people get commit access. Anyway, the point is that we work on the
  idea that the pathway to become a team member becomes more clear from an
  outsider point-of-view.

I'm sure not everybody will be able to travel this distance but it would
be great if you would at least consider joining that BoF remotely.  I'll
care for a somehow TimeZone aware scheduling - if needed we'll organise
two BoFs to match all time zones.  I'm also aware that we have pretty
different teams and it might make sense to do some infrastructure
related BoF with your team and other teams that are caring for Debian
infrastructure.

I have some specific questions to the i18n/l10n team.

  - Do you feel good when doing your work in i18n/l10n team?
  - Do you consider the workload of your team equally shared amongst its
    members?
  - I consider i18n / l10n an extremely important entry point to attract
    newcomers.  Could you confirm this assumption of mine or do you
    think I'm over-optimistic here?
  - Do you have some strategy to gather new contributors for your team?
  - Can you give some individual estimation how many hours per week you
    are working on your tasks in youre team?  Does this fit the amount of
    time you can really afford for this task?
  - I personally consider your team important enough to be mentioned
    on our Organizational Structure page[2]?  Did you thought about this?
    I think it is good to have an entry in Debian Wiki[3](that page is
    als a bit aging - nearly 3 years no edits) but possibly the official
    web page might be more visible to newcomers.  You have also a Wiki
    page for L10n[4] which I do not see linked from some global index page.
  - I'm a bit concerned about the people listed on your Wiki page[3]
    under "Usual roles" since I know most people and think they could be
    considered MIA.  My team metrics initiative is somehow backing up my
    assumption from mailing list activities[5].  Teammetrics of Git commits
    are showing[6] that other people remain more active here (thanks to
    those; current most active commiters in CC)
  - I was once contributing to DDTP (in its very early days).  Could you
    please give me some update about this project?
  - What other tools are you using?  Can you please describe some of your
    main workflows (or provide deep links to such a descriptions)?
  - Can I do anything for you?

Kind regards and thanks a lot for your work
   Andreas.


[1] https://people.debian.org/~tille/
[2] https://www.debian.org/intro/organization
[3] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/I18n
[4] https://wiki.debian.org/L10n
[5] http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debian-i18n.png
[6] http://blends.debian.net/liststats/commitstat_debian-l10n.png

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