On 10/21/07, Olav Vitters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 01:35:38PM -0400, Og Maciel wrote: > > Thank you for stepping in. I completely understand every little bit of > > what you said. And though I don't complete agree about svn account not > > being a reward for good work, I can obviously respect the decision. > > It is not a decision. It has always been this way / policy. There is one > coordinator who checks in for everyone. This works fine for many teams.
IIRC, this wasn't exactly the policy. The policy was basically that accounts are given following certain conditions: 1) based on current *need* for an account -- i.e. can you show that you have a need for an account. This is usually done by showing past contributions, but contrary to a "reward", what's most interesting is if you need it *now*. Had it been a "reward", then you could have contributed much in the past, but could stop tomorrow, but still be eligable. So just to make it absolutely clear, accounts are *not* a reward, they're based on current need (there was some comment about the account being a "reward" earlier in this thread, which worries me). 2) based on approval/vouching for by the maintainer. In the case of translations, the equivalent of a maintainer is your language team coordinator. The maintainer decides who he or she does trust. If your maintainer says no, then it *is* no. There's nothing the accounts team could or should do about that. Then it is not an accounts problem, but a team problem. Given 1) and 2), there's nothing in policy that said a single language team could only have one committer. But since large translation teams often tend to have a bigger need (1), that's usually why they tend to have more in practice. But the exact number could vary, based on how the team is organised. So Og, if you and the coordinator have clearly different opinions, then it is a team problem, not an accounts one. Please don't disturb the accounts people about the problem; they have much to do as is. If you and the coordinator have different opinions, you need to settle them first, before even requesting an account. That's how the system works. If you cannot settle them inside your team, and you're unhappy with the current coordinator, then you need to bring this up for discussion on gnome-i18n, so the team issue can be resolved. But please do not make it an accounts problem, because it is not. Christian _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n