Yesterday i had a look at the l10n.kde.org database and noticed there were about 300 people that had registered there in the past 4 years to help translating KDE and most probably had not been contacted.
Even if i didn't put the system into place, you guys need an apology, so here it comes: "We are sorry".
Besides saying "oh fuck!" i started mailing them all (some registered like 4 years ago) and this morning i've already got some answers.
Some had managed to overcome the blackhole of not getting any answer and actually contacted the translation team and were already alive and kicking. Good :-)
Some had moved to gnome and obviously are not interested in translating KDE anymore. Bad for us, there's no better way to keep an user that getting him involved
Some others had become KDE developers meanwhile :D
Some people still want to translate. Great!
Most of the address just bounced off though :-/ Lost contributors :-(
So remember if you add a way for people to contact a team, make sure it does not get lost and there is anyone looking at that mailing address, database, forum, mailing list or whatever.
And BTW i'm in the process of killing/reworking the l10n.kde.org database so this does not happen again.
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