On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:18:11AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: >Quoting Steve McIntyre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >(in -devel-announce) > > >> The i18n and l10n groups tend to be quite informally organised, but >> (with a small number of exceptions) are mostly working well. There's a >> small (and funny) contradiction in the responses here: Christian >> Perrier told me that the team needs some stronger leadership and he >> doesn't think he's good at organising things. Most of the other people >> in this area said that they loved Christian and his efforts in >> organisation. *grin* > >I want to comment on that.
<snip> >This is the combination of both people acting as I do and people >working as they do that makes a good team, but the most visible (or >vocal) person should not hide (or censor) the work of all others. > >This is more or less what I expressed in the mail I sent to Steve when >it comes at -i18n...see below (I did not remember that I made it that >short....apparently, I'm not *always* talking too much). > > d. Are there enough resources for your teams to do their jobs well? If > not, what's missing? > >The i18n team is missing some formal structure. I think I'm mostly >culprit for that as many people see myself as the team "leader" and >therefore expect any movement to come from /me. I'm not the best >suited person to *organise* stuff, indeed and we're really missing >people who take responsibility to lead things. Hi Christian, Apologies if I've misunderstood or misrepresented what you were telling me. I saw some irony in what I saw as differences between your text above and the responses from other -i18n folks, and I couldn't resist pointing that out. Clearly, many people (including me!) think you're doing a great job and that deserves to be recognised. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James D. Nicoll -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
