On Mar 9, 2013, at 6:57 AM, janI wrote: > On Mar 9, 2013 3:18 PM, "Andrea Pescetti" <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> janI wrote: >>> >>> That does not (as I read it) state that we can bypass RTC for >>> non-committers. Allowing non-committers access is one thing, but allowing >>> them to change the source (in this case text) directly is quite another. >> >> >> Sure. The setting for new volunteers would be: >> >> 1) No paperwork, no ICLA, just create an account on Pootle >> >> 2) Translate through suggestions (equivalent to contributing patches) >> >> 3) RTC in place (i.e., strings are committed after a review by a > committer, exactly as it happens now; what a "review" is in this context > will vary, as it is now, depending on availability and skills of > volunteers). > > that is perfectly within the ruleset. > > I thought the reason for local users was > - get their work named or > - allow them to do review (not possible on suggestions) or > - save committers work > > as you suggest I cannot see the difference to using anonymous as we have it > today ? What did I miss ?
We should know who is making the suggestion. If someone makes a large number of high quality suggestions then they are a good candidate for project committer. If suggestions are all anonymous then we haven't a clue. By naming the work then items 2 and 3 are future enhancements as more translators become committers. > > making support for non-ldap users is no trivial task (just think of spam > protection) so clearly this effort should counter weighted of other > advantages. True, we should not be obfuscating work by moving it elsewhere. Regards, Dave > > rgds > jan i >> >> Regards, >> Andrea. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
