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sebronin 7:43 pm on August 7, 2012

I would like to be a validator for…

I would like to be a validatorValidator See translation editor. for bbpressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org. pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party for the french language.
The current validator seems to be dead, leaving bbpress without french language.

Ze Fontainhas 8:18 pm on August 7, 2012

Please get in touch with the French team. I’m pretty sure none of them are dead.
sebronin 10:18 pm on August 7, 2012

If they are not dead, why haven’t they been validating any stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. in the last few months?
Please don’t post if you have no idea what you are talking about, otherwise you look like a troll and you make everyone waste his time.
- Ze Fontainhas 11:40 pm on August 7, 2012
  
  Manners go a long way, particularly when you’re just getting started here. You’re not helping your argument in any way by being rude, and yes, wasting my time. If you have questions as to the inner workings of the French translation community, please discuss that with them.
  
  For the record, and since I am the Ployglots’ team lead, I have an exact idea of what I’m talking about. Since you, on the other hand, seem to be a little unclear on how we operate, let me spell that out for you:
  
  It is indeed possible that sometimes teams or team leads disappear from the radar and are impossible to reach (this is most definitely not the case here). That would be one of the very few circumstances in which the leads of the Polyglots’ community would intervene directly in substituting one team’s leads/validators for others. Teams should organize themselves, without the need for chaperons. Also, this Polyglots teamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. leads cannot conceivably be familiar with the dynamics of more than a hundred languages and cultures currently active.
  
  Is it clearer now?
- Xavier Borderie 8:50 am on August 8, 2012
  
  Hey Sébastien! Thanks for the heads up.
  
  We used to manage the bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org. translation up until it was turned into a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party, when we kinda lost track of the project, I’ll admit that.
  
  We’ll take the time to bring the bbPress translation up to speed in the coming days.
sebronin 8:33 am on August 8, 2012

One way to fix this problem would be to have the interface in GlotpressGlotPress GlotPress is the translation management software that powers Translate.WordPress.org. More information is available at glotpress.org. let you export non-validated stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings.. Or have the interface in Glotpress let you download previously validated strings (which may or may not be outdated).
At the moment, it’s impossible to download the strings if they haven’t been validated.

“Team should organize themselves” is a nice statement but falls short when it hits reality: we end up with substandard products, we don’t end up solving the problem. Especially when we have automated alternatives that let us workaround the inherent laziness of the community. I wonder where a project like “Linux” would have been if we had relied on letting “people organize themselves”.
- Ze Fontainhas 6:56 pm on August 9, 2012
  
  Generically, you seem to be looking for a quick fix to your specific, individual problem, rather than be worried about the consistency and coherence of the translations which benefit all users of the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party.
  
  At the moment, it’s impossible to download the stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. if they haven’t been validated
  
  This is an open-source project. If you don’t agree with how something is implemented or find it has bugs, you can either submit patches (which are very welcome) or fork the whole thing, i.e. create your own translation and maintain it (less welcome, but hey, that’s life).
  
  I wonder where a project like “Linux” would have been if we had relied on letting “people organize themselves”.
  
  I am not aware that the Linux project was initiated as a diktat from above where “they” didn’t “let the people organize themselves”. Sure, it has coordinators, a coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team and plenty of contributors, an hierarchy of sorts.
  
  What you still don’t seem to get is that that’s exactly how each language team operates, including the French team. Being abrasive to the general Polyglots teamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. is pointless (actually it is my opinion that being abrasive in general is mostly pointless), as we are the mere enablers of those teams, we do not dictate how they should operate.
  
  In short, I’d recommend you get in touch with the team, help out where you can and generally ameliorate your karma by contributing your insights. All stand to gain, including you.
  - mistercyril 3:45 pm on September 24, 2013
    
    Hello, I’m just chiming in here a year later and apparently nothing has changed (as far as I can tell). So it is still impossible to export current French translations and to this day 0 threads have been validated…
    
    I can kind of understand the frustration of some users (regardless the language) that are confronted with this kind of situation where someone creates the “translation team” for a given language, essentially blocking anyone else from doing it, and then doesn’t contribute whatsoever. What’s more is that they slow down the development of the Polyglots project and the collective efforts of the entire WordPress community, which is really a shame. So perhaps letting each translation team “organize itself” could be subject to actual “organization” at some point?
    
    As a fluent french mother-tongue WordPress enthusiast, I would be happy to validate some threads for BBPRESSbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org. so that we can get this thing going again, or of course I could just keep the translation to myself but that would kind of defeat the purpose of this platform.
    
    Thanks,
    
    C.

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