On 2004-12-17, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> > http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/doc/translations/spanish/RULES
>
> I think this document may be of more help to you than to
> other people. It's a lot of process documentation for what is,
> essentially, a simple and straightforward arrangement. I think
> if we handed something like this to other translators, their eyes
> would glaze over, they'd never read it -- yet they'd go ahead
> and get the work done anyway.
There are some issues not done by other translation projects, like
the translation of svnbook.red-bean.com. I personally consider this
a negligence if not done, and the explanation to the fact that I
already have 4 other volunteers for the Spanish project. Enforcing
such simple rules helps the visibility of the project at the cost
of a negligible effort on part of each coordinator. Your (meaning
developers) lack of interest in these issues astonishes me.
Besides, I wouldn't expect suggestions to the chapter related to
the translation community. I expected you would contribute to the
second chapter. Things you could specify:
* Two people are required to have a translation project hosted in
the main repository. Rules for these people to be available always
to the Subversion community.
* Write access to the repository doesn't mean a translation project
can duplicate lots of other files in it, available elsewhere. From
size optimisation point of view, you could argue the .xcf files of
the repository are a drag. Gimp handles without problem .xcf.gz
versions of them, which are on average less than one fourth of
the space. Not a problem now, but think of scalability.
* r11950 showed that non project members should not write directly
to the project reserved area, and the following outcry questioned
my actions and authority. I specified this on the translators
section, but it wouldn't hurt to say again that the coordinator
of the translator is capable of making the correct decissions.
* I have received emails where people expressed that I irritate them.
Well, I'm not here to make friends, but if there is something
specific I'm doing wrong and you can put in clear words, I'll
avoid doing it.
* What to do with the people with write access who have lost interest
in whatever they were working on. Do they lose write access? If
so, what time period is given?
* Ok, so I'm terribly bad. Subversion development has stalled because
I flood the mailing list with senseless request and only
contribute flamewars. What are the things I would have to do for
the community to want to change me as coordinator? How would this
take place? Are we talking about some hidden chit-chat on IRC?
* Who is the person in charge of translation projects? Is it still
Erik Huelsmann? What does he have to do with regards to the
translation project? Is there anything we (I) have to do as in
progress reporting?
* Just like my opinion about svnbook.red-bean.com, you could make
a point that translating the .po files is less work to do than
translating a full book, and therefore a book translation cannot
be started until the .po files are done, because every user will
see those, while not everybody will read the book.
* And another thing would be the translation of the main Subversion
page. But I expect that this would be so painful for whoever
admins it that nothing would be done, like the broken mailing
list archives.
I didn't write those because I was already bored, and thought you
would prefer to write them in proper English.
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Received on Sun Dec 19 21:33:08 2004