Thank you for the clarifications!
I’ve been primarily working with Ven. Jhanarato on maintenance, refactoring, and improving automation and testing of the main SC repo the past couple months. Since HongDa is very close to finishing up Bilara v2, I didn’t want to interrupt his work there (which we briefly discussed in PM), and will see what I can help with development-wise at a later date.
But tasks like porting texts don’t necessarily overlap with development, as the complexity is quite different.
Particularly for someone with a chronic illness like me, some days my brain can refactor a whole codebase, and other days writing some HTML is all I can muster.
Similar for folks of varying skill levels and experience.
The new(?) proofreader role might be something of interest to more people who perhaps have enough strength in a language to proofread, but not necessarily enough between two languages to be confident in their own idiomatic translations. It was something I was thinking about as I’ve helped with technical writing in FOSS a good bit, plus there’s some very diligent readers in the typos thread!
Something like that could also possibly make for a training pipeline for new translators too – i.e. by starting as assistants.
(Although certainly that wouldn’t be the same as another experienced translator reviewing the whole work)
Indeed! A different kind of challenge 