On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, Austin English wrote: [...]
There's at least one other option: http://translationproject.org/html/welcome.html
It does not look like they make it possible to translate online. They seem to be more like a repository for PO files. So it seems less translator friendly and not as 'modern' as Launchpad.
The upside is that it does not look like they try to automatically suggest translations from other projects so there may be less copyright issues from this side. However the web site is not clear on copyright issues, except for pushing translators to disclaim the copyright on their work.
http://translationproject.org/html/whydisclaim.html
They also strongly discourage projects from accepting translations from other sources that the translation project. I don't think we want to introduce such a limitation in Wine so if their translators share that point of view it could cause a clash.
http://translationproject.org/html/maintainers.html
But Launchpage is certainly not the only option. We could set up our own Pootle server for instance.
http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/features
A number of projects do so. http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/live_servers
An advantage is that we would be in control of the policies and copyright management. The drawback is that it requires more effort for translators as they would have to create yet another account just for Wine.
All these options are also not necessarily mutually exclusive either (though it raises coordination issues if a given language is worked on on two sites).