On 13-09-2013 08:32 ???????, Rafael Ferreira 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.
Thanks for the info Rafael! :-)
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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