On 16-09-2013 12:37 অপৰাহ্ন, shankar prasad wrote:
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
Thanks Shankar!:-)
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Rafael Ferreira
<rafael.f...@gmail.com <mailto: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
<mailto: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
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
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