On Mar 2, 2012, at 4:22 PM, Michael Bauer wrote: > 02/03/2012 23:41, sgrìobh Gavin McDonald: >> See >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/translate+pootle+service+auth+levels >> for more info on the privileges applied. >> >> You need not be logged in to submit translation suggestions. >> Therefore, no need to be a committer to do so either. >> >> HTH >> >> Gav... > Gavin, the nature of the best is that for small languages, you usually have a > team of one. If I add "Suggestions" then there is no-one who will accept them > or, if I get the right priviledges, I have to accept them at a later point > myself. Or indeed, if someone suggests a junk translation, then how will a > committer who is unfamiliar with the language going to know? > > I'd have to be at least a Project Admin level (looking at your table (by the > way, should that be "higher perms" instead of "giving higger perms"?). Not > because I want to commit but apart from the above reason, because I'm not > doing anything unless I can make backups (sorry, but I *almost* got burnt > very badly when OOO went down) and because I need to be able to overwrite > some of the old stuff (I was in the middle of a major review of a lot of junk > that ended up in the Gaelic translation). > > If that's not an option, then I have to seriously think about participation > in AOO.
Well I think that the PPMC needs to seriously think about how to handle very small NL projects like Gaelic - Scottish. While yours is a specific case, it does point out a general problem. How does AOO help smaller NL communities that do not already have committers bootstrap productive translation of their language. How does the PPMC provide proper oversight in considering someone's merit without work here at Apache? This may be a case where we will need members of the PPMC to vouch for someone's prior work. I don't want to abandon smaller languages. Perhaps we need to have a test, perhaps help translating news for the website and/or bootstrapping / restarting NL parts of the website. I would be willing to help guide work on NL parts of www.openoffice.org. What do you think? What does the PPMC think? What does the community think? Regards, Dave > > Michael
