On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Claudio Filho <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > 2013/2/22 janI <[email protected]>: >> At current (based on work of the update of translate-vm) we are able to >> share strings within the asf community and anybody else accepting our >> license. > > This is a good new. > >> The bsd license is not valid for our installation (but it is for the >> general version), we accept only our ICLA license (committers only). > > This is the point: other contributions. > > Today we have two levels of contribution, but and if we have > translators that wish to use Pootle without sign a ICLA? This is the > good point (IMHO) at launchpad. When you register your self in there > tool, you check/agree that all your work will be licensed under BSD. > > I understand that this process can be adopted by us, Ipsis litteris, > changing the license by Apache. > > I took a look fast in Pootle docs and saw that exist condition to > enable other permissions for users and I think that is possible to > create profiles. IMO, is possible to enable more one profile, of > translator (without ICLA, but agreed in registration time with donate > his work to ASF/project). > > The main point is collect more volunteers with translation skill (in > some times is the *unique* thing that can help), and giving to him an > idea about how works the project. In a second time (and with > interaction with his l10n team or the project at all), he can sign the > ICLA and will be promoted to commiter, with more "powers". ;-) > >> HOWEver, I hope with the new infra structure to provide a platform for >> non-committers to use pootle in a motivating way, this depend however on a >> vote in the community. > > I think that we have the same idea, Janl. And using your "way" (with > images) in new propose for l10n, i did a flow explaining my idea[1]. > [1]http://people.apache.org/~filhocf/aoo/proposed_flow_pootle.png >
This makes sense to me. Apache does something similar in JIRA. A user can submit a patch on an issue in JIRA and say that it is under the Apache License. No ICLA is required. Ditto for sending a patch on the mailing list. Pootle could be the same. -Rob > Regards, > Claudio
