Hello Sankarshan, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay a écrit : > Hi, > > I am not a Project Lead and of late don't have any substantial > contributions to the i18n/l10n bits of OO.o. Perhaps I am not > qualified to comment. However, I *use* OO.o and *know* that OO.o and > the NLC is one of the strongest reasons why organisations and folks > switch to using FLOSS in their infrastructure.
Well, thank you for your very kind words, Sankarshan.... :-) > > On 12/3/06, Bernhard Dippold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snipping a lot of content] > >> I don't want OpenOffice.org to be divided in subprojects where nobody >> feels to be part of the whole but only of it's *own* project. Many >> community members are part of several projects and subscribed to a >> lot of lists. If we all work on interaction between projects and >> idividuals this will improve communication - and depending on the >> reaction of the addressed we'll be able to distinguish between >> inattentiveness and intentional ignorance. > > In private and off list conversations with Charles and Louis I have > more than once hinted at two things: > > [*] "Walled garden" : where it related to various subgroups (and even > groups) "talking" to each other. I will not point out to other FLOSS > projects that do i18n and comment that they are doing a better job. > Each project has its own complexities and demands on the developers > and non-developer contributors. However, if a constant bridge of > communication is not maintained then each entity feels short-sold. > That is not healthy in the long run and does a lot to suck the > momentum and the enthusiasm But it is also cultural and related to the persons themselves. Sometimes, you have people not daring to express themselves in public and in a non-foreign language. Sometimes, there are people who simply have too much to do (l10n, qa, local community, etc.). Then you have some cultural reasons: some cultures do not really promote the fact of communicating with alien people in public for instance. Anyway, one side of the walled garden is that this is sometimes much about the unease of publicity and not about the lack of cooperation. I'm thinking about three or four native-lang project leads here that almost never express themselves in public but talk to me regularly off list. And this is also why I spend most of my time online but off lists ;-) .... > > [*] Opacity : where it relates to process and protocols for > contribution of code (and content) to OO.o Yes, this is another problem but it improved a lot recently. It has to be said however that it is also a matter of choice, and communication of course. > > Internecine feuds amongst subgroups in a project is something that > keeps on happening, let's not encourage it to a level where > communication breaks down and thus the product and then the project > sustains irrecoverable damage. Right. Best, Charles. > > Regards > Sankarshan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
