Re: Resources (was: Re: debian-l10n-galician)

[Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>]

On 27/12/2006, at 4:44 AM, Jacobo Tarrio wrote:

> El martes, 26 de diciembre de 2006 a las 22:55:33 +1030, Clytie  
> Siddall escribía:
>
> > Jacobo, I hope you don't mind me responding to this. I'm in a very
>
>  No, don't worry :)
>
> > I can quite understand that you have to set some absolute limits. You
> > have to protect your own health. But doesn't it help us avoid burnout
> > if we have the help of others?
>
>  Normally, yes, but part of my issues come from "having" to lead a  
> group of
> translators. When you do, you receive lots of translations for  
> review, and
> their qualities are quite different.
>
>  Being an unpaid volunteer, I have to make the job its own reward.  
> Add that
> I have a perfectionistic streak, so what came out of my hands had  
> to be
> perfect to be worth its while. So, I had to fix every issue and  
> started to
> lose my patience, to think that it'd be faster if I had done it  
> myself,
> etc., etc.
>
>  Eventually that wore in and I got burnt out.
>
>  Now I don't even want to be near a translation team :-)
>
>  (There are other issues, but they don't have to do anything with me
> personally, but with politics, and I don't want to discuss them  
> publicly).

Thankyou very much for explaining that. :)

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN

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