On 22 February 2013 19:20, 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. > Translators can use pootle today without having signed a ICLA, however the submitted translations will be saved as suggestions until approved by a committer. This process is equivalent to volunteers submitting patches.
I cannot find the BSD license remark on our version of the pootle server, we have our general ASF license. Please remember that since the server runs on a ASF VM work done on it automatically get the ASF license. The pootle server run by the pootle team uses the BSD license. I would like to offer translators (in the future) that they can translate directly on pootle (independent on their ICLA status), however this is a somewhat hot community issue, since it would require a special pootle user had access to svn. > > I understand that this process can be adopted by us, Ipsis litteris, > changing the license by Apache. > Already done on our server (unless I have misunderstood something). > > 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). > yes, we use that today...committers can edit directly, and others make suggestions. > > 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". ;-) > > Agree > > 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 is pretty much how it works at the moment. I would like to go one step further and allow non-ICLA users to review and add translations, not only suggestions. With svn it is really no problem, if we want to do a rollback, and the user can see the effect imidiatly. Problem with suggestions are that they are not controlled in the review section of pootle, meaning the committer has more work. rgds Jan I. > Regards, > Claudio >
