On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:14:39PM +0100, Muhammad Alkarouri wrote: > I don't think I belong to that class, but I was interested in seeing > what is happening. I have requested mailing list membership but I got no > answer. Incidentally, I notice that your message has not made it to the > fedora-trans-list. Well, I should have said all Arabeyes members ;) > > I think that the fedora people want to encourage as much translation as > possible. However, the idea is still not ripe. Yeah, apparently also discouraging people joining their mailing-lists. > That being said, I think fedora has to encourage both individuals and > team. That is, promoting individual work for languages that don't have > existing teams, and utilising existing teams where they exist. I am sure they have good intentions. I also am sure this is the intention. > It is understandable that they will not prevent someone who wants to > participate, but they should encourage coordination. I would suggest: That is the problem. By their system, they are dicouraging coordination by making it very difficult. > - They acknowledge teams that are actually active by giving them the > maintainer status for the language. Active teams are those teams that > are doing more than half the work currently done. Only half? ;) > - Probably they can keep the idea that anybody can 'take' a module, > because that does not mean he/she is the translator for it. I would > suggest that the automatic freeing mechanism be in place, so if somebody > takes a module but does nothing in it, it will be freed automatically. > The maintainer should have the right to free a module; this right should > be used judiciously. This keeps the group in control. > > [..] > > I hope this is enough food for thought for the time being. Too complicated. I personally don't care for Redhat or Fedora or anything affiliated with both of them (we've had that distro discussion when we were in Sudan).. I just thing they are implementing a bad system and the person who is implementing it is refusing to acknowledge this. That is, at the end of the day, up to them. Regards -- ------------------------------------------------------- | Mohammed Elzubeir | Visit us at: | | | http://www.arabeyes.org/ | | Arabeyes Project | Homepage: | | Unix the 'right' way | http://elzubeir.fakkir.net/ | -------------------------------------------------------
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