On 13/03/2008, Pramod R <pramodleo@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> (As I am about to send my mail, I see that Gudmund has sent a similar
> mail, sending anyway :-)
>
> If I understand correctly, you would like to enforce the use of your Web
> translation tool for all kn translations. I can imagine the sort of
Not true. Pramod took up the coordinatorship of GNOME, OpenOffice, Aspell(and I must see what else) and all have been lacking attention from his side. For instance, on OpenOffice list too this discussion is going on. There he has not done any work but still wants to hold on to this "position".
> problems you may face where on one side some are committing translations
> directly in SVN and on the other side other people are working on the
> same translations through the Web tool.
> The problematic is somewhat similar to the Ubuntu Launchpad vs upstream
> GNOME.
>
> I cannot see any optimal solution to this problem.
> One solution could be to divide the remaining work, and announce to the
> current coordinator the particular packages on which you want to work.
> You should then only open these packages for translation in your Web
> tool. When you're done, you send the po files to the coordinator (or
> commit if you get the permissions), and then announce another set of
> packages on which you'd like to work on in your team.
I also see the problem in the same light and I agree with Claude's solution. I don't mind how you translate as long as you respect other will have their methods to translate and we need on agree on the best translation tool to translate.
There is absolutely no issue with what method one uses. The Coordinator has certain responsibilities and Pramod, while claiming that he exists and is willing to do the work, is not in a position(practically speaking) to do so.
This comment by Pramod backs my argument
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518577#c1 --