On 02/25/2011 11:16 AM, Tom Callaway wrote:
On 02/24/2011 04:58 PM, Ruediger Landmann wrote:
If the move was acutally the result of a purely authoritarian, unilaterial "fiat", why not say so? Sometimes decisions like that are indeed necessary in any community, which is why we have leadership -- to make tough and sometimes even unpalatable decisions. But if that was indeed the case (and I'm still open to the idea that I'm badly misreading the situation) -- Why the pretense that it was anything other?
I think you are misreading the situation. The Infrastructure team had known for a while that there were problems with the Fedora-local instance of Transifex, and members of the Fedora translator community were complaining about lack of needed functionality.
It was proposed that since the current local transifex instance was not a viable solution for providing translations for Fedora 15, that we consider a move to the hosted tx.net offering (this was also the recommendation from the transifex upstream, who offered to provide this to us at no financial cost).
This solution was presented to the Fedora translation community for consideration (albeit, with not a whole lot of time to decide), and they decided that was a good plan for F15, with the understanding that we can (and probably will) revisit this after Fedora 15 is done.
Hi Tom,
How do we get a commitment that there will be a process to govern this decision?
- Mike