Nilamdyuti, I second your opinion!
But as a work around, before translating any file, do remember to add a comment in that particular module along with "Reserve for Translation" action. This will keep you active in Damned Lies! Shankar Prasad On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Rafael Ferreira <rafael.f...@gmail.com>wrote: > In resume: your user were moved to inactive, but you're actually active; > and you want to contribute. > > Maybe the inactive coordinator (Amitakhya Phukan) can move you to another > rank, like committer or coordinator. Or any other Damned Lies maintainer > can do it for you. > > > 2013/9/13 Nilamdyuti Goswami <ngosw...@redhat.com> > >> Hi, >> >> I Nilamdyuti Goswami (user name: ngoswami) started doing Assamese >> translation for Gnome UI from Gnome-3-0 and since Gnome-3-2 I have always >> maintained the UI status at 80% or more to make sure it gets released in >> Assamese. If the git logs are checked, it will be found that I am the only >> active member in the Assamese team who has been sincerely doing UI >> translations for the past two years. After Gnome-3-8 was released with 86% >> UI translation status for Assamese, I didn't immediately start working on >> Gnome-3-10 as it's status was also more than 80% (something like 85% if I >> correctly remember). I just kept the master branches updated from time to >> time and later on I kept it on hold for some time. Now, since Gnome-3-10 >> release date is approaching, I thought of updating the important packages. >> Although even if I don't do so, it will still get released in Assamese as >> the status was 80% when I started updating and presently it is 81%. Now, my >> question is why does Damned Lies shows an active member as inactive >> considering a very short inactivity time? What will a new translator who is >> keen on joining the Assamese translation team think when he visits the team >> page? Will not he think that there hasn't been any activity in the Assamese >> translation for Gnome since time immemorial? :-) Suddenly his love for his >> mother tongue will come into life and he will think about reviving a >> already active team (I don't know about others, at least I am doing my >> part, this is open source, we cannot force someone to work! :-) ) If some >> old mail threads are checked it will be found that a similar incident >> happened to the Marathi translation team. The team coordinator for Marathi >> had to list down the package names to which he had recently made commits >> and provide some other links to prove the new guy that he his active and >> that the new guy was misleaded. A bug was also filed in this context for >> Kannada translation team: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/** >> show_bug.cgi?id=701190<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701190> >> >> So, what I feel is that Damned Lies should not show an active member as >> inactive so quickly. Moreover, when clicked on the member's name in the >> translation team page, the member's contributions should also be shown in >> whatever convenient manner possible instead of just showing the "Team >> Membership". I am not saying that it should show the member's entire git >> log! :-) but at least it can show the releases to which the member has >> contributed. This will avoid a newbie from getting misleaded and get in >> touch with the right person to start contributing. >> >> Regards, >> Nilamdyuti Goswami >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> gnome-i18n mailing list >> gnome-i18n@gnome.org >> https://mail.gnome.org/**mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n<https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > gnome-i18n@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n > >
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