On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 05:17:00PM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

The issue was that transifex has been an ongoing problem for the following reasons:

<snip important list of reasons/details>

Thanks for providing those details. I meant, and wrote it poorly I'm sure, that I presume that the situation was much as you described, but in the end there were people who did not feel/get communicated to. At that point, Infra and others were saying, "OK, sorry if you didn't hear about this before, it's been a long-standing problem, and we need to solve it now before the barn burns down."

So, sorry for characterizing the communication as poor. I think what I'm seeing could benefit from some change management that all know about. A lot of times we have to result to a change management list that goes something like, "OK, ask $this_list_of_individuals_I_can_think_of, then email $this_list_of_mailing_lists_I_can_think_of, and write a blog post."

Anyway, I'm sure there is a not-too-much-bureacracy way to do this. I started this ...

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Change_management

... I'm sure there are others who deal with that all the time around here, maybe there are some existing processes we can adopt, incorporate, hug, etc.

Thanks,

- Karsten