Hi! Jorge González González <[email protected]>, Sat, 15 May 2010 12:17:43 +0200:
> Hi all, > > as a consequence of the Slovak GTP status, I also asked my team whether > they are happy with our model and so on. Looks like we will probably try > a bazaar like model, and I would like to know how the rest of the teams > are modelled. As for my team, Jiri already explained a lot in his messages in the Slovak coordination thread. Our team approach is liberal in that it allows interested translators to reserve a module for as long as they wish, given one continuously works on one's module and is able to finish one's work in time, e.g. before the module release. Having long-term assignment has several advantages, I think that many have been already mentioned: clearly apportioned team work, minimizing the risk of inconsistency and/or different translation style, chance of being proud of "my" module work, etc. But I wouldn't compare it to the cathedral-bazaar paradigm, really. Teams with long-term module assignment can still work as in bazaar; just like in many others non-l10n open source teams, they make use of work or task assignment to their team members for a period of time, but this surely doesn't make their development model cathedral-like. The problem with the Slovak approach might be that it's simply too excessive, a coordinator possesses team superpowers, and other team members aren't able to reach a reasonable level of team work responsibilities. Therefore it causes team conflict. > In any case, in DL only one person can reserve a module. May this be a > problem? Hmm, I think that generally, only one person should be allowed to work on a module at a time. It makes sure that translation work is not duplicated in a simple, yet effective way. > Besides, I'd like to ask, if someone sends a comment over a module > without having reserved the module first, does DL send an email to the > team? As far as I know, it does not, but it may post a message to users who previously commented on the module page. Best, Petr Kovar _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
