On Yaum al-Ahad 02 Jumaada al-Awal 1425 09:17 am, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:25:24AM +0300, Munzir Taha wrote: > > Salaam, > > I would like to announce with pleasure that King Abdulaziz City for > > Science and Technology (KACST) wants to participate in the translation > > beginning from next Saturday. I will be the coordinator in the > > translation work. The work > > Coordinator of what exactly?
Well, I will be the supervisor of the project. Their team are professional translators but not a technical people. They do want to concentrate on translation issues only not the registration, CVS, ... issues. I will be the person who will do the commits in behalf of them. > > They would like to start with KDE, OpenOffice.org, Fedora, Debian, > > wordlist ... as time permits. Since our work will be intensive, I prefer > > we take a project and work with it until finished without intervention > > from others to avoid conflicts and time waste as much as possible. Since > > I would be working with them fulltime I would like to take over the whole > > procedure (for one month) from committing the changes to sync'ing with > > KDE main site. I need some help here regarding the sync procedure and > > BRANCH/HEAD issues. > > Munzir, Arabeyes doesn't work that way. Each project has its own > maintainer and so you cannot just "take over for a month" ;) However, in > the case of KDE, our coordinator's activity is less than satisfactory, > so unless he quickly responds, I would be more than happy to hand it > over to you for a month. This however, would not apply to other > projects. No problem, I just want to make a productive work and to make sure that nothing will hinder the process. > Since we have been doing things on Arabeyes' CVS and then sync'ing, the > natural response would be -- working on Arabeyes and then sync'ing. > > Munzir, people who wish to contribute in translating for x project will > have to go through the normal procedure everyone has to go through > (registration, application for CVS account, etc.). I'm not sure I > understand how you wish to go about doing this (I'm getting the feeling > you have some other plan for how you want it done). If you have better > suggestions, let us know. Yes, I have mentioned it above. All the translation would be committed by me. I will be the contact person during this period so you can send me any comments or suggestions. -- Munzir Taha PGP Key available gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.mandrakesecure.net F0671821 Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer Linux Registered User #279362 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Club member Maintainer of Mandrake Arabization Project Status (MAPS) http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/distros/mdkarabicsupport-en/ CIW Designer, ICDL, MOUS New Horizons CLC Riyadh, SA _______________________________________________ Doc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc
