Translator discussions

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Sun, 8 Mar 2026 09:40:40 -0700
John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> > On Mar 7, 2026, at 20:35, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 6 Mar 2026 10:15:52 -0800
> > John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
> >   
> >> Sorry to have caused offense or to have implied that your help
> >> isn’t wanted. 
> >> 
> >> This forum isn’t very useful for discussing individual translations
> >> because few of the translators subscribe or participate; the
> >> exceptions (Frank Ellenberger and Chris Lam) are also core team
> >> members who contribute in other ways. It *is* useful for flagging
> >> problems with ambiguity in the English strings because those have
> >> to be changed in the source code, and it’s the place to request
> >> adding a new language/variant to the list of available languages
> >> on Weblate.
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> John Ralls  
> > 
> > So
> > Is there a place for Gnucash translators to discuss translations?
> > Should we host one here?  
> 
> Liz,
> 
> Here would be fine. The problem is that if there are any translators
> here they’re lurking and we don’t know about them. We have configured
> the “Translation instructions” setting on Weblate with
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation Mailing list for
> translators: mailto:gnucash-devel at lists.gnucash.org
> 
> But I don’t find anywhere that that shows up. The logical place would
> be the “Engage page”, https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/gnucash/. But
> no, and I don’t find any way to change the content there.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls

There have been two instances of failure of the Gnucash-devel list when
the list of subscribers has been lost.
Sadly I think this may have contributed to failure of the communication
that has occurred. 
I recall another person noting that they had been removed from the list
and wouldn't rejoin. As I have never removed anyone from this list in
the last 12 years or so they must have fallen foul of a bot cleaning
the list of dead email addresses.

The instructions John mentions can be found on
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/gnucash/#information

Without any definitive way to track the translators and invite them
back to the Gnucash-devel list I think this is going to take some time
to rebuild.

Liz