Hi, Vivek is Malayalam translator for the last 3 years and he has commit access to the repository but have not committed a single translations yet. We have an active team of translators doing GNOME, KDE and Debian Installer translations and would love to see gnu.org in Malayalam and is ready to contribute. And now he is blocking other contributors. How can a person be a language coordinator when he hasn't done any translations?
When we have requested Vivek to work together he has removed the existing members from the savannah project (even another administrator). This is not an acceptable behavior for a member of the Free Software community. I request for a review of Vivek's behavior and take an appropriate action so that contributors are not blocked for personal gains and have gnu.org translated into Malayalam. I am sure Savannah has policies for project administrators and they have to follow certain rules. Vivek's behavior could have motivated from the fact that he was a savannah hacker/admin for some time. I can provide all the email communications that happened between us (You could check the savannah logs, gnu.org commits to verify these yourself). Vivek was a coordinator for Debian Installer and he has not done a single line of translations (I was backup coordinator and once he left I took over it). Vivek removed Anivar and Anwar for asking Vivek to give an opportunity for new contributors and suggesting to work with already active Swathanthra Malayalam Computing. He did not give any reasons for the removal. Ani Peter is coordinator of GNOME Malayalam Maxin is coordinator of KDE Malayalam. Ramakrishnan is a member of GNU Malayalam project. You can ask any of these persons about Vivek's contributions and even you can Vivek itself to show his contributions. He has done a lot of contributions to organising user group meetings and writing documentation, campaigning for Free Software in Education (we traveled together for submitting a petition to head of a university here). He was also a savannah hacker for sometime. I have nothing personal against him and I appreciate his contributions but this behavior is not acceptable. I also thank him for bringing me to localisation. If you don't intervene here and come up with a solution it is really going to hut Free Software movement in Kerala as we have worked hard to spread Free Software and people have shown more interest in Free Software and there is a requirement for Malayalam content that talks about Free Software and the obvious answer is translation of gnu.org You can even verify how each of us contributed with FSF India. (Well I have been with flame wars with many of in the community as I don't actually look at who I'm talking to but what I am replying to. You could even look at the flame wars happened at Digital Freedom Global activists mailing list. I mention these because I don't want to give an impression that I'm a good guy here and Vivek is a bad guy) Hmm great way to start a new year !! Happy New Year to all. Regards Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign
