Hi! > As for my team, Jiri already explained a lot in his messages in the Slovak > coordination thread. Our team approach is liberal in that it allows > interested translators to reserve a module for as long as they wish, given > one continuously works on one's module and is able to finish one's work in > time, e.g. before the module release. Having long-term assignment has > several advantages, I think that many have been already mentioned: clearly > apportioned team work, minimizing the risk of inconsistency and/or > different translation style, chance of being proud of "my" module work, etc. > > But I wouldn't compare it to the cathedral-bazaar paradigm, really. Teams > with long-term module assignment can still work as in bazaar; just like in > many others non-l10n open source teams, they make use of work or task > assignment to their team members for a period of time, but this surely > doesn't make their development model cathedral-like. > > The problem with the Slovak approach might be that it's simply too > excessive, a coordinator possesses team superpowers, and other > team members aren't able to reach a reasonable level of team work > responsibilities. Therefore it causes team conflict.
Thanks for your answer! Actually I did not intent to start a discussion on cathedral vs. bazaar style team leading. On the one hand that's up to the teams and on the other hand you point out in a great way why neither of them is perfect. Johannes _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n