Re: Coordinator Expectations

[Hicham Amaoui <amaoui at altern dot org>]

Hi Youcef,

Youcef Rabah Rahal wrote:
> Salam Hicham,
>
> I don't think Nadim is dictating anything. Nadim is suggesting a plan of 
> work, and I think this is what is expected to happen in a an Open Source 
> Community, based on volunteer work but also and aboveall on democracy.
>
> I think Nadim's email is right to the point and it would have been 
> better to discuss it if you had any comments rather than take it 
> personally.

Please re-read the email, there's no invitation to discussion but thing 
that MUST be done.

> I also share Nadim's point of view and I WANT to work on translation. I 
> think, in my humble opinion that the urgent thing to do now is to share 
> the tasks in the very coming days. I don't want to start translating 
> files randomly without a precise goal and I think that this point of 
> view is at least shared by Mohamed Aser too 
> http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/doc/2003/January/msg00032.html . I am 
> sorry to say this, but I am still waiting for your message that you said 
> you will post 
> (http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/doc/2003/January/msg00053.html) and 
> you said also that the start of this week was a deadline to wait for 
> more people and then define people's work. Well, we are almost at the 
> end of the week Hicham ! I think people who'd like to work on KDE are 
> you, Mohamed Aser and I (Maybe also Nuridin Aminagha if I understand by 
> the cvs mail, though he didn't explicitly say it). I think that it will 
> be easy to assign tasks if newcomers will show after we start the work.

Here's what I think. I announced that I'll try to finish kdelibs and 
kdebase. I don't want to assign tasks, because I prefer poeple to start 
translating aplications they love and they use regularly, and because 
everybody have a different meaning for 'important', I consider for 
example kdeedu or games to be very important.
So just announce on what files you're working so that there's no 
overlap, and stick to a file until it's finished.


> OK, this is my point of view and I hope you will discuss it 
> constructively rather than being offended :-) I have no personal issues 
> and this is an open community after all.

I have 5 years now watching this community, participating sometimes, 
reporting bugs other times. I think I know how it's supposed to work :-)

> Last week there was a one month deadline, a week later is only three 
> weeks...

Just start translating then :-)

> Salam,
>
> Youcef.

Hicham