Dear clementlefebvre, (with cc to Ubuntu and Launchpad Leadership)
Sorry for the delay in responding in full to your notice, but now please
allow me the courtesy to make a reasoned argument as to why you have
taken an erroneous decision on this occasion and in this case.
I believe a certain Launchpad member has been in contact with you and
misled you, resulting in this misguided conclusion.
After a previous encounter with this Launchpad member while working on
translations for my native language (your new Admin being an adult
learner) on the Ubuntu project, I find his motives highly questionable.
Here is my experience of his Modus Operandi, I started translation work
on Ubuntu back in 2009 and although we were Launchpad members much about
the same time, he had carried out only couple of lines of translation
work on the Ubuntu's Scottish Gaelic project, a team with little or no
activity at that stage except some members practicing their Scots
English dialect (please check with the Ubuntu project as to the veracity
of this). Subsequent to this he managed to have himself appointment an
Administrator for the Gaelic translation of the Ubuntu project (FYI
please note, it was an naming error when you acquiesced to my team Mint
request, you should have used the correct term The Scottish Gaelic Team
and not The Scottish Translation Team....Minor detail I know). So he
had himself appointed Admin, on the few occasions I contacted him
especially the first time he showed little enthusiasm for the work in
hand so I left it at that, I wasn't expecting to see great numbers take
an interest in Ubuntu in Gaelic and he was more interested in the
Redwood side of things, all of which confirmed the belief I am on my own
here, and in fact he continued to contributed little or nothing at all
to the translation but last year he appointed another fellow learner and
immediately promotes him to Admin (again please check Ubuntu
records for veracity). At this stage I did not voice an opinion, we are
but a tiny community and I wanted to encourage involvement and as a
strong proponent of FSF and the open source ideal and a dictatorship
never appeals.
Let me continue, earlier this summer he contacted me and began to
complain about the quality of the my work on Ubuntu, he asked me to
desist from more translations to the Ubuntu project, this raised many
concerns, but not being the Admin, I knew a had little option but to
depart this 2 member 2 admin "team", I was saddened, I had taken the
Ubuntu core Unity Package to 70% complete and all by myself, and having
explained to him on many occasions that my desire was for us complete
this first draft translation then do a thorough Quality Control
Translation Audit on all the packages to promote our Language Version to
at least a Beta testing status, before ever promoting it to a wider
community, I am great believer in Quality Control that is my background.
Now my great fear is having seen his reworking of my first Ubuntu draft
work, all that remains are errors on top of my first draft, and wish now
that I had highlighted this to Launchpad and Ubuntu, what will happen
now is that this will now be promoted and advertised as a completed
version of Ubuntu in my native language and as Quality software fit for
purpose, which it patently isn't, his efforts are very much to learner
standard i.e inappropriate terminology and usage etc etc.
Let's move to Mint, I am Mint user from your first Distro, and a Linux
user from the start, You will have noticed that my interest in Mint did
not start last week, I have worked on mintMenu since 2011 (and would
have revisted that after QC work on the latest Linux Mint Series), and
started work on Mint itself when you made it available here on Launchpad
again on own and requested your good self set up Scottish Gaelic
language team, I did not ask for admin status having noted that you
maintain that for yourself on the other languages, I am somewhat baffled
why you allowed this user to take the helm and bring his one Ubuntu
colleague on-board, it must have come to your attention at Mint that
this a User and indeed an Admin who attracts no other users but the said
colleague and indeed tends expel translators especially when translation
language reaches what he perceives near completion. Do you not find that
odd I certainly do! ....... Now I have personal request to yourself at
this point ..I would indebted to you if all my work to date on your Mint
project be removed, for Ubuntu I fear it's too late and we will see a
flawed translation appear under the Ubuntu name, and think these are
reasonable requests, certainly regarding Mint as I requested the team
and to prevent another act of translation piracy, by quasi commercial
concerns in our minority Languages which are now attracting indirect
financial backing from some government departments.
Now the sad part, am forced to leave Launchpad because I have lost faith
in the system, it was great at the start but as you see an nightmare in
the end. But please as I requested remove the translated packages from
Linux Mint, it is my work and will be hijacked similar to my Ubuntu
efforts. and let Linux Mint maintain it's great early principles and
promise, and hope that Ubuntu take note and along with Launchpad standby
their Codes Of Practice, if only to protect future members.
au revoir Mint
and Goodbye Launchpad and Ubuntu.
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Message Received: Sep 12 2013, 01:26 PM
From: "Scottish translation team for Linux Mint"
<[email protected]>
To:[email protected]
Cc:
Subject: alexd deactivated by clementlefebvre
Hello alasdair caimbeul,
The status of your membership in the team Scottish translation team for
Linux Mint (linuxmint-translation-team-scottish) was changed by Clement
Lefebvre (clementlefebvre) from Approved to Deactivated.
<https://launchpad.net/~linuxmint-translation-team-scottish>
