On 10/21/07, Og Maciel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian, > > A small comment on what you said in your email. If the word of the > administrator is the only valuable item you'd count towards granting > someone svn access, than this process needs to be reviewed and dealt > with as soon as possible, as it is prone to one single point of > failure.
Most free software processes unfortunately are prone to single point of failures, because they deal with volunteers. The contributors are volunteers, the coordinatores are volunteers, the maintainers are volunteers, and the accounts team are volunteers, and so on. We cannot afford, or do not have the mandate to dictate, redundancy for anything. So I think the current process works quite well, given the circumstances. It is not ideal, but I fail to see the alternatives. Furthermore, the community is based on trust. To get responsibility, you will have to have earned trust by people. The accounts team are, as I said, volunteers, and the accounts team deals with accounts for all of GNOME, and in some cases even things aren't GNOME but just happens to live in the same repository as GNOME. So they have quite a lot to do, and there's no way they can know all about GNOME. So, basically what the account team first does when they want to resolve an account request is look up what module or translation team the request is all about. Then they look up who is the relevant module maintainer, or the translation team coordinator, for that. Then they ask that person if they support the requestor's account request. That's the only way the account team can work -- they ask whoever's in charge for that part if they know and trust and support the requestor. So if that's not the case, the account request will be denied straight away. The accounts team does not resolve team issues. There's no way they could. Thus, if you feel there's something wrong with your team or team coordinator, you should bring it up in the Translation Project, but please do not bother the accounts team with it, because they're already overworked, and there's nothing they can do about it as long as there's a disagreement. So it is up to you as a contributor to bring the issue up where it can be resolved -- if not in your language team, then upstream in the GTP. I've added two new FAQ points to http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/AccountFAQ now -- hopefully this will now be a little bit clearer. Christian _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
