Creating Belarusian Team (be)

[Luigi Toscano]

Гулкі Смоўж ha scritto:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> It seems that there is no active Belarusian team
> <https://l10n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=be> at the moment and I would
> like to create it.
> I am experienced translator into Belarusian and know other translators, that
> would like to organize ourselves and translate KDE into our language.
> Also, it seems like the Chinese team has a Crowdin project with automated
> integration through GitHub. If we could cooperate to make translations at
> Crowdin, it would be great.


Please do not use crowdin. The team using it is what I would call an
historical accident, but starting its usage for a new team is not solution.

Crowdin is really bad: it doesn't provide the credit for the translators involved.
What I've seen with crowdin (and other "open" web tools) is that people just
fix the string they need without caring for the existing strings, leading to
ugly inconsistent translations.

My suggestion is to split the files between people, by logical groups (similar
items together), and review each other works.

But really, no Crowdin.


That said, there have been instructions on how to start or restart a team, for
example here:

https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-i18n-doc/2025-September/002973.html

https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-i18n-doc/2025-September/002983.html

But please note that for Belarusian there is at least one translator active,
who is focused on Gcompris. but at least he knows the workflow and you
definitely need to coordinate with him.
There was also another translator active until one year ago, who may help.
I've added both in CC.


Ciao
-- 
Luigi