Re: KDE arabic translation is about to be 100% but

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa> wrote:
> We, KACST, cooperated with arabeyes.org (I am already a member there) via 
> uploading the files to their local cvs repository and then they committed
> it here on KDE main repository. Since arabeyes.org is a voluntarily project
> with always a busy KDE maintainer, KDE used to always be lagging behind
> other projects. We, KACST, seeing the importance of KDE did our best to
> change this situation.

I keep getting astonished at how extreme these emails are getting (not to
mention their hostility) for something that is mundane and not a real issue.

> Our problem is that due to the lack of a timely proper sync and some
> scripts deficiencies, we lost hundereds if not thousands of translated
> strings on the past. We asked to have a direct access to the KDE repository
> but it's not welcomed since the attitude here is to have one KDE maintainer
> that he alone could commit the files. This is good as far as the KDE 
> maintainer is being able to sync on time. This proves not possible with
> the Arabic language maintainer due to him being extremely busy even just
> to do this a few minutes jobs. I complained in many threads in arabeyes
> doc mailing list about us being hindered by this process.

The aforementioned script was modified to suite everyone needs (and yes I
stayed up until 4AM fixing it), so I very much caution against this "see
they stink and are bad, so work with us instead" emails and reiterate the
need for everyone to have cool, level heads to get this completely (and
any other issues) taken care of.

If Elzubeir doesn't have time (and I believe he noted that he does given a
couple of days head-notice), then maybe someone else would be willing to
take on KDE maintainership.  Or maybe we can automate the sync or have it
be done periodically/weekly (like Youcef used to do for Mandrake).  I'd
vote for a weekly sync while work and commits are happening to it.

In all, there really is no need to point fingers and instead to outline
what needs to happen and when (stating direct dates and giving people
notice before deadlines is _always_ helpful).

Salam.

 - Nadim


	
		
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