Hi Nilam, You are already in "Committer" category. That should "ideally" mean "active".
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Nilamdyuti Goswami <ngosw...@redhat.com>wrote: > > 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>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 >>> >>> 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 >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnome-i18n mailing list >> gnome-i18n@gnome.org >> 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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