Re: Third call for votes for the debian project leader election 2006

[JC Helary <jch.helary@free.fr>]

> > Considering the huge contribution from translation/documentation
> > groups, if they are under-represented in the developer group it means
> > there is a problem.
>
> I don't know, I do know that even though I've been doing  
> translations for
> over 3 years I still haven't bothered with NM as I didn't need the  
> upload
> rights, and didn't care enough about the voting rights.

Ok, so let's consider people who care :)

But another hint for considering that uploading rights and voting  
rights have no reason to come as a set.

> I strongly suspect the same goes for most non-maintainer translators,
> especially since a lot of them don't seem to know that it's  
> possible to
> become a DD without being a maintainer.

That is correct.

> Checking the NM pages now I find that:
> - the new maintainer corner ([1]) specifically mentions  
> translations as
>   acceptible earlier contribution.
> - the Tasks and Skills section on [2], is missing a description of  
> what's
>   necessary for translators. Same at [3]

That is correct to.

Now, consider a place where the right to vote is given exclusively to  
people who contribute in a very specific way that excludes 99% of the  
people who actually contribute :)

JC Helary