On 08.06.2012 08:58, Ross Gardler wrote:
[...] If someone earns merit they earn merit, it makes no difference how that merit is earned.
I totally agree and that is exactly why I am concerned about the fast-tracking of committership for procedural reasons and not for merit.
I propose the problem is in the workflow not in the structure of ASF projects. If that is the case then we need to examine why non-committer translators are unable to contribute efficiently. Find out why our default policies say they need to be committees and address that issue. For example, are contributions to Pootle any different to patches sent via JIR# from an IP point of view? If not then there is no need for an ICLA but there is a need for an audit trail.
In JIRA or Bugzilla one doesn't have to be a committer to attach a patch but one has to be logged in. If there were a similar role in https://cwiki.apache.org/INFRA/translate-pootle-service-auth-levels.html
there would be no problem. Herbert
