[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #1242: Per locale @mention that emails all translation editors

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#1242: Per locale @mention that emails all translation editors
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Reporter:  petya   |      Owner:
    Type:  defect  |     Status:  new
Priority:  normal  |  Component:  translate.wordpress.org
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 With plugins and themes coming to the repo and the rules about adding new
 per project translation editors for different locales stating plugin
 authors need to post a request on the Polyglots P2 for that, we face a bit
 of a lag issue.

 Currently the only way to notify the team of anything is to @mention them
 either on the P2 or on Slack.

 The problem with this, apart from having to know how to @mention, is that
 getting one translation editor's username currently consists of 5 steps
 and that's if you know where to go and what to look for:

 - Going to the Polyglots p2
 - Clicking on Teams
 - Clicking on Details (not entirely straightforward, I've already proposed
 changing that to "Team" in #1241)
 - Clicking on the username, copying it from the address bar (only way to
 get it right, copying the url also works)
 - Going back and pasting

 I think it will be much easier to notify translation editors for all
 things where their attention is needed, if we could have something similar
 to @mention but on a team basis.

 That would allow us to notify them around releases, to notify them for
 outstanding requests for new per project editors and so on and so forth.

 A Slack integration would also work, but even with our continuous attempts
 to get everyone on Slack, not all of the TEs are there.

 I'm interested to know how everyone feels about this idea.

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