Re: DPL teams survey summary summary (about i18n team)
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:18:11AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
>Quoting Steve McIntyre (leader@debian.org):
>
>(in -devel-announce)
>
>
>> The i18n and l10n groups tend to be quite informally organised, but
>> (with a small number of exceptions) are mostly working well. There's a
>> small (and funny) contradiction in the responses here: Christian
>> Perrier told me that the team needs some stronger leadership and he
>> doesn't think he's good at organising things. Most of the other people
>> in this area said that they loved Christian and his efforts in
>> organisation. *grin*
>
>I want to comment on that.
<snip>
>This is the combination of both people acting as I do and people
>working as they do that makes a good team, but the most visible (or
>vocal) person should not hide (or censor) the work of all others.
>
>This is more or less what I expressed in the mail I sent to Steve when
>it comes at -i18n...see below (I did not remember that I made it that
>short....apparently, I'm not *always* talking too much).
>
> d. Are there enough resources for your teams to do their jobs well? If
> not, what's missing?
>
>The i18n team is missing some formal structure. I think I'm mostly
>culprit for that as many people see myself as the team "leader" and
>therefore expect any movement to come from /me. I'm not the best
>suited person to *organise* stuff, indeed and we're really missing
>people who take responsibility to lead things.
Hi Christian,
Apologies if I've misunderstood or misrepresented what you were
telling me. I saw some irony in what I saw as differences between your
text above and the responses from other -i18n folks, and I couldn't
resist pointing that out. Clearly, many people (including me!) think
you're doing a great job and that deserves to be recognised.
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that
English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on
occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them
unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James D. Nicoll
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